Comments on: Show Hidden Files in Mac OS X

By: How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive

How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:58:20 +0000

[...] it’s because the zipping tools default behavior is to including hidden files whether they are shown or not. That’s not necessarily a bad thing and in many cases it would be considered useful, [...]

By: What is a .DS_Store file?

What is a .DS_Store file? — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:48:50 +0000

[...] who have a few Mac’s on their networks, where seeing the files turn up when hidden files are made visible. Here is my explanation as to what a DS_Store document is, what happens if you delete them, and how [...]

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:42:29 +0000

On some versions of the operating system, it requires a YES to enable, and a NO to disable, instead of TRUE or FALSE.

It will not give you any feedback if successful.

Do a killall Finder to see the change.

By: eric

eric — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:39:50 +0000

Whether this is old news or not, I didn’t know it, and I just tried it, and it worked. That is great. Thank you.

By: 4 Essential Menu Bar Utilities for Mac OS X

4 Essential Menu Bar Utilities for Mac OS X — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:57:07 +0000

[...] writes commands and manually relaunching the Finder: hide desktop icons and show them again, show invisible files and hide them again, and show the user library or hide it again. No more launching Terminal to [...]

By: How to List All Files and Subdirectory Contents in a Folder

How to List All Files and Subdirectory Contents in a Folder — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:50:55 +0000

[...] in mind that if you want to view hidden files through this method, you must enable hidden files to be shown in the Mac OS X Finder separately, which will then carry out through every folder until it is [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:38:46 +0000

Thank you! Was in a pickle and really needed to see my hidden files. This command worked great.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:48:32 +0000

Old, old, old news that, to this day, is still important because Apple doesn’t think its users need obvious ways to see hidden files. When software is written in a way that seems to imply that it knows better than its users what should be allowed (e.g. seeing “invisible files”), then the software writers are both arrogant and wrong.

By: 4 Ways to Quickly Access the Root Directory in Mac OS X

4 Ways to Quickly Access the Root Directory in Mac OS X — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:37:03 +0000

[...] and all root subdirectories (like ls -a / would show at the command line), you will need to set hidden files to be shown by the Mac OS X Finder. The directories and files deemed hidden by way of the chflags command or [...]

By: Dick.Zombi

Dick.Zombi — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:34:52 +0000

Terminal comes with your Mac… No download required.
Post = Necessary.
It’s funny to see the self-righteous of one bash the self-righteous of another. Go Linux.

By: Clark

Clark — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:20:58 +0000

Rebecca, Terminal is a utility. Look in your Utility folder (inside your Applications folder)

By: rebecca

rebecca — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:16:10 +0000

ok, this may seem ridiculous but a bit of an amateur here, how do you access the terminal to type commands in? Am on a macbook running OS X 10.5.8

thanks.

By: Track Down an Apps Preference File Easily By Watching Modifications

Track Down an Apps Preference File Easily By Watching Modifications — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:30:37 +0000

[...] modified plist files will float to the top fairly quickly, though of you have hidden files shown, you’ll see temporary plist files show up first, ignore those and just focus on the normal [...]

By: derpy

derpy — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:45:54 +0000

or you could just not leave an unnecessary comment and stop being a self-righteous macsnob…and also…you’re lame…and also…this is an old ancient post… and also… your mom

By: Mohammed EL ASSAL

Mohammed EL ASSAL — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:47:21 +0000

Thank you so much for your contribution !!