Comments on: Quick Tip: Show/Hide Hidden Files

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:37 +0000

Here’s how to make a shell script to do this for you if you prefer just using Terminal
http://macmartine.com/blog/2009/11/shell-script-to-showhide-hidden-files-on-os-x.html

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:37:44 +0000

Hi, this method works perfectly. However it does not seem to apply immediately even when i close all the finder windows. It only shows all the hidden files when i re-start my mackbook. Any ideas?

By: Wolf85

Wolf85 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:43:11 +0000

My parents used to torture me as a child. ,

By: Jeremy Carlson

Jeremy Carlson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:28:19 +0000

Update – once I tried this a couple of times, the loss of my current Finder windows really bothered me. So I searched around, and found AppleScript for quitting/reactivating the Finder.

Preserving the current Finder windows is nice.

Now my Automator script looks like this:

[ Run Shell Script - has this: ]
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

[ Run AppleScript - has this: ]
activate application “Finder” –gives Finder focus

tell application “Finder”
quit
delay 2 –finder needs some time to save its state
activate application “Finder” –restart Finder
end tell

Hope this helps someone!

By: Jeremy Carlson

Jeremy Carlson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:06:18 +0000

Wow – thanks! Actually got me using Automator. I’ve looked at that thing before, never figured out how to use it, though I knew I wanted to.

Quick and VERY useful. I tried the other options, but the original worked best for me.

By: Mahdieh

Mahdieh — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:28:12 +0000

OMG, That was an awesome trick. Thank you very much.
I have a question about virtual box on mac : I have installed windows xp in virtual box on mac, but USP ports doesn’t work.
Do you know how I could enable them???

Thank you so much

By: Conway

Conway — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:44:09 +0000

Wow… that was sweet! easy as eating chips. I found the original post to be fantastic and it was easy to follow and it work like a charm.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:29:16 +0000

I had this working on my system until I upgraded to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. Now, I don’t get the contextual menu listing Automator workflows. Any thoughts?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:45:16 +0000

What I was asking was hot to remove the two options from the menu. So when you right click the desktop, hover more, then automator it doesnt show, “show hidden files” and hide hidden files. But I solved it.

open finder>go>go to folder…>~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder>delete the two files.

By: william

william — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:57:51 +0000

just repeat the same process but instead of writing TRUE write FALSE.
it’s in the 3rd paragraph in the post:

Step 3: Repeat
Seeing all those hidden files can start to be annoying and can lead to some unfortunate accidents if you happen to delete something you shouldn’t. So as soon as you’re done with the hidden files, simply edit the above workflow by substituting “FALSE” for “TRUE” and save the new plug-in as HideHiddenFile.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:04:47 +0000

This worked great, thank you. But how do I now undo it? It is very important that I put it back to how it was.

By: william

william — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:13:14 +0000

works perfectly, so simple and took 30 seconds,
thanks so much! :)

By: i could be write

i could be write — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:04:01 +0000

finger?

By: Dan Shields

Dan Shields — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:04:23 +0000

Brilliant. Worked great. Thanks.

By: Jaco

Jaco — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:03:16 +0000

Hi,
how do I remove from Automator the entries created for ShowHiddenFiles and HideHiddenFiles? I think I like better the once in a while option to use terminal.

thanks

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By: sal

sal — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:56:07 +0000

what does he mean when he says “simply edit the above workflow by substituting “FALSE” for “TRUE”

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:00:17 +0000

Great post thanks.

Recently bought a macbook pro and have been struggling with this bad boy!

By: rui

rui — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:06:34 +0000

thanks a lot! you solved a lot of my problems in one go :)

By: jarno

jarno — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:25:22 +0000

perfect!

Thanks!!