Comments on: Create a Hidden Folder in Mac OS X

By: hendi

hendi — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:18:30 +0000

help, i make this .hiddenfolder long time ago in my ext harddrive and put 2 folders and files in it. but when i open.. it’s empty! and when i see the info folder it said “10GB items”.. yeah that’s my total files. how can show it again?

hope you guys understand my english sorry.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:50:36 +0000

tnx m8. works just fione

By: Hide Folders in Mac OS X

Hide Folders in Mac OS X — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:15:59 +0000

[...] folder or two on a Mac? A while back we showed you how to make invisible folders and to even how to make hidden folders in Mac OS X, but now we’re going to demonstrate how to turn an existing folder into a hidden [...]

By: pascal

pascal — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:50:19 +0000

Thanks a lot, this is just perfect for my needs!

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:18:36 +0000

i put my documents in my new .hiddenfolder, but as soon as i tried to re open , the folder finder said ” unable to find folder”

PLEASE help!!

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:18:18 +0000

i put my documents in my new .hiddenfolder, but as soon as i tried to re open , the folder finder said ” unable to find folder”

PLEASE help!

By: Make an Invisible Folder and Hide Files in Plain Sight

Make an Invisible Folder and Hide Files in Plain Sight — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:50:29 +0000

[...] Want to hide some files in plain sight? You can make a folder invisible to the eye, but not to the click with this neat trick. I learned this in 6th grade to hide files and apps from prying eyes, and despite it’s simplicity it worked to store games, movies, and pictures on school computers without anyone knowing where they were kept. Believe it or not it works, and if you have limited access to the Terminal it beats using the period method to hide folders. [...]

By: me

me — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:29:41 +0000

4-way window pane should do the trick.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:51:45 +0000

Right,

do you guys know how to make invisible folder out of invisible folder?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:26:03 +0000

Also forgot to mention.

You can use “tab autocompletion” with the Cmd+shift+G functionality – nifty!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:21:34 +0000

Great tip!

Further to using the Cmd+Shift+G function in the GUI for opening the hidden folder. You can also use the ‘open’ command from Terminal.

E.g. open .hiddenfolder will cause finder to open a new window on that directory.

In addition to this, you can use the ‘open’ command to launch Applications!
E.g. open -a “iTunes”
Type the exact name of the Application within the quotes as it appears in the Applications folder.

You can even pass arguments (to applications that take them) using this method.
E.g. open -a “TextEdit” /Users/user/Documents/document.rtf
This will open the file “document.rtf” in TextEdit.

Have fun