Display of hidden files

yachay · #1 February 13th, 2004, 03:02 AM

Whats up everyone...

I am for sure not an experience user of unix but I was in the bookstore about three months ago and saw one of those "Unix for Beginners" or something along those lines. Anyway, I allowed my hidden files to show (for no good reason, may I add) and now I forgot how to turn them back.

I know ya'll know,

Help me out...

Zammy-Sam · #2 February 13th, 2004, 04:48 AM

did you unhide your files over the terminal? Maybe you renamed all .* files into * files?!? I don't know if this works. But the easiest way to hide and unhide hidden files is tinker tools:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11967

dagaz · #3 February 13th, 2004, 04:55 AM

Without knowing the steps you took to show system files its hard to help reverse the process. Did you change the configuration of /.hidden? If you were doing it from the command line this is probably the easiest way to do it. First check that you still have a .hidden file in your root directory by typing:

ls -l /.hidden

You should get an output like:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 156 13 Sep 06:41 .hidden

If that is the case then open the file in pico through sudo:

sudo pico /.hidden

You should have the following:

Quote:

automount
bin
cores
Desktop DB
Desktop DF
Desktop Folder
dev
etc
lost+found
mach
mach_kernel
mach.sym
opt
private
sbin
tmp
Trash
usr
var
VM Storage
Volumes

Good luck.

Jackass · #4 February 13th, 2004, 09:30 AM

go to macupdate.com and download tinkertool .... and finish