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Show hidden files leaves some files hidden.

I used the terminal defauls command to show hidden files in the finder, but files starting with ._ are still hidden.


I think files with ._ signify the resource fork of a file when on a fat32 disk. This is a fat32 formated disk. I am running 10.4.11.


This is somewhat an fyi, but anyway of seeing these files starting with ._ in the finder?


mac $ # Show hidden files & folders in finder
mac $ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE   ;killall Finder
mac $ ls -la /Volumes/DOSFAT32/ 
total 33184
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Jun 28 15:30 ./
drwxrwxrwt   10 root  admin      340B Jun 29 12:08 ../
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff       12K Jun 29 12:39 .DS_Store*
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Jun 29 12:06 .Spotlight-V100/
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Jun 29 12:06 .Trashes/
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff       69K May  8  2006 .VolumeIcon.icns*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Apr  8 15:16 ._.Trashes*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Jun 22 14:57 ._.bash_profile*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Jun 22 14:57 ._.bashrc*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff       82B Jun 15 14:31 ._Photos*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff      655B Apr 23 16:48 .bash_profile*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff      169B Dec 15  2010 .bashrc*
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Jun 15 14:31 Photos/
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        8K May  9 15:42 config/
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Jun 25 22:13 mac10-2-files/
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff       64K Jun 20 19:34 showthread.php.html*
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        8K Jun 20 19:34 showthread.php_files/
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff       11M Jun 26 19:32 smbtorture.cap*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4M Jun 26 01:40 smbtorture.cap.gz*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff       43B Jun 18 00:08 ubuntuupdate.txt*
drwxrwxrwx    1 mac   staff        4K Apr  8 15:03 windows exes/
mac $


Here is what I see in the finder.


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I do see the ._ file when I copied ._Photos to my home folder.


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Posted on Jun 29, 2013 10:14 AM

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Posted on Jun 29, 2013 3:01 PM

I think Finder is out...

Mac OS X does not show you companion files unless you use Terminal, and sometimes not even then. (It shows *invisible* files rather easily, but to Mac OS X, both "MyFile" and "._MyFile" are two parts of the *same* file, and it doesn't normally return two directory entries for one file.) You only see these companion files on non-HFS disks that you move to other operating systems.

http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2006/Jun/msg00180.html


So, the only Options I see is using VCP7, or Paralles, etc., to have a pseodo way to see them in Finder, or....


Write a script to list those files in a window & maybe link them back the the real ._ files.

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Jun 29, 2013 3:01 PM in response to rccharles

I think Finder is out...

Mac OS X does not show you companion files unless you use Terminal, and sometimes not even then. (It shows *invisible* files rather easily, but to Mac OS X, both "MyFile" and "._MyFile" are two parts of the *same* file, and it doesn't normally return two directory entries for one file.) You only see these companion files on non-HFS disks that you move to other operating systems.

http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2006/Jun/msg00180.html


So, the only Options I see is using VCP7, or Paralles, etc., to have a pseodo way to see them in Finder, or....


Write a script to list those files in a window & maybe link them back the the real ._ files.

Show hidden files leaves some files hidden.

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