Comments on: show hidden files in OSX Finder

By: james

james — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:04:40 +0000

The above works fine in Leopard just copy it straight from the web page and then paste it in a terminal window

By: BjornW

BjornW — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:12:25 +0000

@bilby,

Sorry, I can’t help you since I don’t use Leopard. I can confirm that it works for Tiger. Perhaps somebody else can tell you more. If you find the answer, please also state the solution in a comment on this blog, so other people are helped as well. Thanks in advance.

By: bilby

bilby — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:36:34 +0000

I just tried this on Leopard – it didn’t work. Did i do something wrong?

By: troc

troc — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:28:07 +0000

thanks anyway, regards, troc.

By: BjornW

BjornW — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:54:30 +0000

@troc

I can’t remember, I have switched the functionality back to hide hidden files. Can anyone tell troc more?

By: troc

troc — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:55:09 +0000

I have tried this, but it only seems to work for the finder. Should this also work for ‘file open’ and save dialogs ?

By: Rune

Rune — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:17:50 +0000

neat and thx alot

By: Bohemian Blog » Blog Archive » OSX: Mounting Digital Cameras, Getting and Deleting Pictures

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:55:13 +0000

[...] When you tell OSX to delete a file on any drive you’ll notice that the files are quickly removed (unless it’s a network drive. In that case, after telling OSX to delete the file you will be reminded that the files will be completely deleted and asked if that is indeed what you had intended.) This process is quick because the files are simply moved to a folder on the same drive named ‘.Trashes’. The specified trashes directory is hidden on every drive. Any file whose name starts with a ‘.’ will be hidden in OSX and all Linux OSes as well. This is a little confusing since anything you trash on any locally mounted drive shows up in the ‘Trash’ on your dock. The Trash would seem to be one location on the computer, but in reality the ‘Trash’ is a collective display of the contents of all .Trashes folders in all locally mounted drives. If you’d like to see these hidden files in Linux it’s usually an option under ‘View’ in the file browser. OSX’s Finder doesn’t have that option for the general user, but it’s easy enough through a simple command in the Terminal or the use of an AppleScript to run the Terminal for you. Anyway, here’s what you need to see hidden files in OSX. [...]

By: rick

rick — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:46:05 +0000

Thanks,

I’ve been look all over for that command.