Viewing hidden files in OS X
Mon, 22 October 2007
Unfortunately Finder has no option to show hidden files. But if you open the Terminal and ask your computer nicely - it will display the hidden files. This is how you do it.
Open ~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
and press return. Then restart the Finder by either typing
killall Finder
and pressing return, or hold down Ctrl+Option while clicking on Finder icon in the Dock and select Relaunch.
To disable displaying the hidden files, just repeat the process above, only replace the word true with false.
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Asanka said: Mon, 22 October 2007 at 21:37
I’m sure you heard of TinkerTool. That tool does show hidden files plus do a whole lot more with a mouse click.
Cheers
Ankur said: Wed, 24 October 2007 at 21:05
But of course, if you’re a serious computer user, you’ll be using Xfile. ;)
Rich said: Sat, 24 November 2007 at 03:04
Rather than Xfile, I would suggest PathFinder. It’s free, and it’s more Mac-like than XFile, although XFile seems to handle perhaps more file systems. I don’t really care about the latter…