How do I make hidden folders visible?

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oceanbluesky Author

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How do I make hidden folders visible?

sorry about the basic question, but How do I make hidden folders visible?

thanks

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jun 11, 2009 9:55 AM

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Niel

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Jun 11, 2009 9:57 AM in response to oceanbluesky

Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and run the following:

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1"

Click on the Finder in the Dock with the Control and Option keys held down and choose Relaunch. Some third-party utility software will also do this.

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dechamp

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Jun 11, 2009 10:10 AM in response to oceanbluesky

Utility programs like Onyx make this fairly simple, and offer many other tools for cleaning caches, etc.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582

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oceanbluesky Author

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Jun 11, 2009 3:01 PM in response to Niel

Thank you for this code...I tried it but did not find the file I was looking for...um, is there code to revert the considerable number of apparently very important files back to their hidden status?

thanks again

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tmx3

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Jun 11, 2009 3:38 PM in response to oceanbluesky

"defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles False"
then restart finder

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