Start Terminal by double clicking the icon. Next, Type the following into the terminal:. The above procedure isn't too much of a hassle if you have to do it once If you find yourself regularly toggling between showing all files, and hiding them, try downloading our free program that switches back and forth with the click of a button.
To use this program, simply run the program, and you will be presented with a few options. The top box allows you to toggle between showing and hiding files that have been designated as hidden on a mac. Just click the appropriate button, and the program will execute the two commands above. Pretty simple. To use this feature of the program, drag any files and folders that you wish to change the visibility of into the window in the second box.
In order to make an invisible file become visible, you will need to have first clicked the "Show Special Files" button in box 1 otherwise, you won't be able to see the files in order to drag them into the box.
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Gary Hoover says:. Philippe says:. Press Enter and hidden files or folder would become hidden again after Finder relaunches. Compared to above feature provided by Mac to show or hide hidden files or folder, third-party app would work more easily, especially when you need to usually show and hide some files or folder.
It is worth trying but the security of the apps cannot be promised or guaranteed. Choose one from them if you prepare to show or hide hidden files on Mac with third-party software. Download the app and double-click the zip file you get. Then it would run on Mac OS X. With two buttons on the app, "Show Special Files" and "Hide Special Files", you will be able to show or hide hidden files easily.
When all files are shown, and if you want to make some of them invisible, just need to drag them to the box on the app. You can log out of the current account and see if there is an old account to log into. Oct 22, AM. Oct 22, PM in response to bananaroo In response to bananaroo. OK thanks. From what you describe they may not be "hidden" but may have been deleted or relocated for reasons unknown. In that event, you could use Spotlight magnifying glass icon, upper right in an attempt to find them by name.
Also, check the root level of your Mac's boot volume. If you still can't account for the missing files, the remaining option would be to restore them from a Time Machine or other backup created prior to installing the OS X upgrade. If you created one, that would be ideal. Oct 22, PM. Nov 11, PM. Dec 3, PM in response to mrfcobf In response to mrfcobf.
Dec 3, PM. Dec 3, PM in response to bftaylor In response to bftaylor. Sorry to disturb your negative complain I'm looking for a way to show Unix "dot files" which begin with a ". Dec 4, AM. Dec 4, AM in response to bftaylor In response to bftaylor.
Works on a per user basis i. Dec 10, PM in response to bananaroo In response to bananaroo. Dec 10, PM. Did not use Sudo though as this did not gain me anything other than to kill all the Finder and relaunch it. Jan 21, AM. So, the commands to Show and Hide hidden files and folders are as follows:. Feb 23, AM. Communities Get Support.
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