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Feb 13, 2013 4:41 AM in response to John Prokosby Barney-15E,How do you double-click on something that is invisible?
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Feb 13, 2013 5:22 AM in response to John Prokosby softwater,Are you talking about when in Icon view?
Either switch to column or list view or, if you must use Icon view, control-click and choose 'open'.
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Feb 14, 2013 6:55 AM in response to Barney-15Eby John Prokos,Barney,
It's very hard to do, only Apple Pro users can see the glow.
You can show invisble files using the following terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True
then restart finder by entering:
killall Finder
But like I said previously you can't double click on them to open them anymore. Either it's a bug or it's by design. I am hoping it's a bug/accident because it's annoying, time consuming and… more annoying.
softwater,
I don't want to control click. I want to double click. Control click and then move the cursor and click again is a more accurate description. That slows me down and is annoying when having to do it over and over again. These are system directories we are talking about. Why has this behavior changed?
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Feb 14, 2013 9:27 AM in response to John Prokosby softwater,John Prokos wrote:
these are system directories we are talking about. Why has this behavior changed?
No idea, wasn't aware of it till you pointed it out because I never use icon view. Always been a column view man, myself (and just to reiterate, it doesn't occur in column view ).
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Feb 14, 2013 2:48 PM in response to John Prokosby Barney-15E,You can show invisble files using the following terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True
then restart finder by entering:
killall Finder
Then they're not invisible anymore.
However, they still have the hidden bit set, if that is how they were hidden. I haven't found a need to unhide anything (I just use unix, Go to Folder, or Go Library), so I don't know if the behavior has changed or if it is just something on your system.
How many of these folders do you need to get into and how often?
Maybe you can just create aliases to those folders so you can get to them easily. Or, you could create a Service to open them and even give them shortcuts.
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May 6, 2013 5:31 PM in response to John Prokosby creativecoder,I am also wondering if this is a "feature". It is annoying.
Cmd+o on the keyboard is a workaround that's faster than Ctrl+click
I guess I'm switching to column view whenever I'm working with "invisible" folders and files
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Aug 28, 2016 5:01 AM in response to John Prokosby vivekwisdom,I think it is a bug. It must be fixed. Very annoying