Deleting . Files

[Polie]

Alright, so my problem is that my Stuffit Exander crashed a few times and I found out that there are hidden files (the files that start with a . as in .system) that are totalling to about 500 megs stuck on my desktop that I guess never finished expanding.

So I want to know if there is a way that i could get rid of these files, since mac seems to make it impossible to get to files with a . in front of them and theyre just clogging up room

Thanks a lot
Joe

[barhar]

What MacOS X version are you using? And where exactly are all the proclaimed '.system' files located?

To view 'invisible' files, copy the next line of text ...

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1; killall Finder

..., paste it into 'Terminal' ('/Applications/Utilities/' folder), and press the <return> key.


Once you have rid your 'Desktop' of its approximately 500 MB of unwanted files, copy the next line of text ...

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0; killall Finder

..., paste it into 'Terminal', and press the <return> key.

[Polie]

thanks so much! it worked like a charm!!