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delete hidden folder?

i have some .(name of folder) created by some games in my home folder that i want to delete, how can i do this?

MacBook Pro 1.83, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Apr 11, 2007 3:37 PM

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Posted on Apr 11, 2007 3:48 PM

There are several ways. The easiest is probably via Terminal.

Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and run the command:

<pre class=command>rm -r .(name of folder)</pre>

The 'rm' is the remove command, the -r switch tells remove to work recursively (i.e. through the directory structure), and the .(name of folder) is the item to remove.
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Apr 11, 2007 3:48 PM in response to Andre Calaminus

There are several ways. The easiest is probably via Terminal.

Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and run the command:

<pre class=command>rm -r .(name of folder)</pre>

The 'rm' is the remove command, the -r switch tells remove to work recursively (i.e. through the directory structure), and the .(name of folder) is the item to remove.

delete hidden folder?

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