Comments on: Mac OS X - Show / Hide Hidden Files in Finder

By: ericmchicago

ericmchicago — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:58:58 +0000

Thanks, really helpful!

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:04:09 +0000

Thought this might help your readers - I found the following script, which will toggle between show and hide, so you can just paste the same code regardless.

Personally, I just compile it as an .app in Automator, and run it whenever I need to toggle.

#!/bin/bash

if [ `defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles` == 1 ]
then
echo “Hiding hidden files.”
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool false
else
echo “Showing hidden files.”
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
fi

KillAll Finder

By: Cody Burleson

Cody Burleson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:59:11 +0000

Thanks for the tip! You saved me some time. It ranks high on Google and I am sure I’ll need it again and again, so please keep it online.

By: Yzer

Yzer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:21:35 +0000

Supercool !

you helped me out bigtime !

your crap is the shit !

peace !

Yzer

By: Christiancondin@gmx.

Christiancondin@gmx. — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:07:02 +0000

You saved my day.

By: Alice Saling

Alice Saling — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:47:48 +0000

How can you prevent the Terminal window from opening after powering up the Mac?

Also how can you the windows platform if you have lost the password?

Thanks for your assistance.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:56:53 +0000

Oops, I forgot the http part:

Show All Files Mac

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:54:50 +0000

I have to regularly toggle between showing all files, and hiding them. I always forget what to type too… so I wrote a program to do that with the click of a button:

Show All Files Mac

The program is free, and I hope it helps others out as well. Enjoy!

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By: noob

noob — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:10:04 +0000

i don’t know why this command does not work for me ……….

the terminal always ask me for the user that i have to apply the command

By: webchick

webchick — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:59:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip! It would be even more usable if you had the lines we could just copy/paste at the top rather than having to type them out manually from the screen shot.

For those others like me who are lazy, here they are. :)

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

By: Sergio

Sergio — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:34:09 +0000

Thanks for the useful tip !! Indeed I was looking how to hide specific files and not all dot files, i.e. I just would like to hide the .DS_Store and localized files and still be able to see my dot files (.zshrc for example). Any idea ?

By: mnate

mnate — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:04:17 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks also. (Can’t believe I need to show/hide hidden files using the Terminal).

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By: Logan

Logan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:34:54 +0000

Thank you for this! On my mac I have a small script I use to toggle hidden files… so when it came to a new computer I completely forgot! Thanks!

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By: Antonie Potgieter

Antonie Potgieter — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:48:01 +0000

Thank you for sharing this.
I’m new to Macos and you taught me something.

By: Budi

Budi — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:05:31 +0000

you save my life man.. tx a lot. cheers

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:09:21 +0000

Thanks for listing this, it was a huge help.