Navigating the Filesystem with Finder

You need to make them visible with a utility like Tinkertool.

If you know the path to an invisible folder, you can use the Go to Folder command in the Go menu to navigate to it without changing any system settings. This command will not navigate to a folder if you don't have Read access to that folder; it does not check the permissions on folders enclosing the one you want to navigate to.

In older versions of Mac OS X, this command cannot be used to navigate to a folder which contains a / in its name, or to anything inside these folders. In newer versions, replace any / characters in the names of the folders along the path with a : to navigate to it.

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Hi John,

you can use shareware utilities such as File Buddy to navigate the whole file system, including all invisible folders.

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Just to add a bit to what Niel has said:

The major hidden folders one would be interested in, anyway this one is, are bin, private, sbin and usr. Once you have entered, say, /private in the Go to Folder option you can continue navigating normally thru all the sub-folders. Also, if you are in column view you can see the path you've taken, the folder you are in, and so on, and make an alias of even the invisible folder. I made aliases of all four of the interesting folders and put them in a folder, called hidden, in my home directory. If I want to go to /usr/share/man I just navigate from the hidden folder. In column view click my home folder, click hidden, click usr, click share, click man. So I can get to whatever I want in the Finder, and without the clutter of all the other hidden files you have when you change the Finder default to show all.
Francine


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