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

By: prasad

prasad — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:05:30 +0000

thankQ

By: Gray Dog

Gray Dog — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:35:44 +0000

One additional tip: Make an alias of the directory (in my case the Library) Now, I can access the Library by just clicking on the alias and don’t need to perform the Terminal gymnastics just to access an old preferences file on my former back up drive.

By: 60Hz

60Hz — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:29:43 +0000

Never thought i’d say this but windows (at least the pre-metro ones) has way better file management than mac os… i mean why not have this in preferences???

And why can’t i merge two folders of the same name…

sigh

By: Ahsan

Ahsan — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:39:27 +0000

Thanks a lot man …..

By: A3mercury

A3mercury — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:12:26 +0000

Ty Ty

super helpful ^^

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:57:10 +0000

Hi, thanks for the neat script.
but toggle script doesn’t work for me…I copied and pasted:

# check if hidden files are visible and store result in a variable
isVisible=”$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles)”

# toggle visibility based on variables value
if [ "$isVisible" = FALSE ]
then
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
else
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
fi

# force changes by restarting Finder
killall Finder

Did I do it write?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:23:12 +0000

Thanks..

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:27:38 +0000

Thanks :)

By: Helton Rosa

Helton Rosa — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:10:02 +0000

Thank you for the Automator

By: Phil Doughty

Phil Doughty — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:44:12 +0000

Thanks, handy time saver

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:58:10 +0000

Brooks, thank you for your selfless deed of publishing such a wonderful gem of a tip.

Please publish more..

thanks

By: DON

DON — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:55:04 +0000

Thanks. I was searching for this for a lon gime

By: Andres Rulnick

Andres Rulnick — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:38:23 +0000

I am continually searching online for ideas that can benefit me. Thx!

By: frank

frank — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:09:29 +0000

Thanks friend!!

By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:17:59 +0000

This way you can easily toggle show/hide hidden files directly in the Finder menu.

http://blog.vitim.us/2012/10/toggle-visibility-of-hidden-files-and.html

By: vitalii

vitalii — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:17:07 +0000

nektony.com/funter free app that solves this problem. it was created by my geek friends, who were desparate to do this every time

By: Colm

Colm — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:18:32 +0000

Thanks very much, was able to easily see that my Library had swelled massively, looks like the Mail app is doing something nasty !

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Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:35:52 +0000

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By: Bala

Bala — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:47:00 +0000

Around 30 min I was checking this option in Finder Preferences.

Excellent!, it was very helpful

By: Giaco

Giaco — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:08:29 +0000

thanks very much!!!!