Comments on: Make an Invisible Folder and Hide Files in Plain Sight

By: zak

zak — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:47:35 +0000

Actually all u have to do is highlight it then you can click on it then open it

By: Xavier

Xavier — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:20:06 +0000

Or you could click+drag over it and double-click its name.

Works with a space as the name.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:47:04 +0000

REally cool can fool dumb teachers with this.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:06:13 +0000

Wait, I just figured out a solution to the problem! First, highlight the icon and then right click (or ctrl + click) and hold it. That way a list will pop. While still right clicking, move the mouse over to the “open” and let go. And there you have it!

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:59:14 +0000

This happens for me too. The sad thing is, I actually already put stuff in it.

By: Fran Cotton

Fran Cotton — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:14:50 +0000

Great trick, I’ve included it in a tutorial and linked to this. I just like a nice minimalist desktop without all the clutter. In my version I keep short file names, so it’s just to make them less obtrusive. You click on the file name to open it.

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By: Daniel Suzuki

Daniel Suzuki — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:28:07 +0000

Also if you use anything but thumbnail view in folders, you can just as easily find the hidden folder through the finder.

By: rascal01

rascal01 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:53:17 +0000

Same problem here, I’m also using Lion.

By: softwater

softwater — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:11:56 +0000

To avoid the problem with list view, couldn’t you put the invisible folder inside a visible one that has nothing else in it?

When someone clicks on the visible folder, the list will look empty (though you’ll have to hide the status bar too, otherwise it’ll say ‘contents 1′.

I can’t really see much practical application for this in terms of security, but it’s nice trick teachers could use to get kids interested in learning about how computers work.

By: 911

911 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:29:32 +0000

I remember doing this back in the day with floppy disks. Maybe mid 90s. We had some game where you kill Barney, very violent for the time.. We all made copies of the disk (no internet), and made them invisible so if a teacher walked by they wouldn’t notice it on the desktop.

By: Bakari

Bakari — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:47:27 +0000

I won’t use it to really hide stuff. I find it useful for just helping keep my desktop uncluttered. I’ll use it as a quick temporary folder to store stuff.

By: Bakari

Bakari — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:42:53 +0000

This is a cool idea. But there a few problems. If you set your desktop view to icon view, it means you have to deselect “Show item info” in View Options in order to disguise the number of items in the invisible folder. You also can’t organize your desktop content by Kind, because that will force the invisible folder to the top, instead of being obscurely placed somewhere else on the desktop. Just wondering if there are any possible workarounds to this?

Oh, and one way I found to easily make the invisible folder visible is to use the cursor and draw a selection around where the folder is. That way, you can click on its invisible name and open the folder. It doesn’t work for me if I just click on where the invisible folder is located.

By: Amogul

Amogul — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:07:10 +0000

Another way of saying “how to hide your pron”