{"id":7,"date":"2010-03-23T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:32:16","slug":"hide-show-file-os-x-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2010-03\/hide-show-file-os-x-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide or Show a File in Mac OS X Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wanted to hide an individual file in Mac OS X Finder without prefixing it with a dot? Here’s how (you’ll need the Apple developer tools installed):
\n[code lang=”bash”]\/Developer\/Tools\/SetFile -a V \u00abfilename\u00bb[\/code]
\n\u2026and to show it again:<\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]\/Developer\/Tools\/SetFile -a v \u00abfilename\u00bb[\/code]<\/p>\n

If you want the Finder to show all hidden files, use this command:<\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true[\/code]<\/p>\n

\u2026and to hide them again:<\/p>\n

[code lang=”bash”]defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool false[\/code]<\/p>\n

You’ll need to relaunch the Finder after this. I can think of three ways:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. [code lang=”bash”]killall Finder[\/code]<\/li>\n
  2. The “Force Quit Applications” dialogue box<\/li>\n
  3. Click and hold “Finder” in the Dock while also holding ‘option’.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ever wanted to hide an individual file in Mac OS X Finder without prefixing it with a dot? Here’s how (you’ll need the Apple developer tools installed): [code lang=”bash”]\/Developer\/Tools\/SetFile -a V \u00abfilename\u00bb[\/code] \u2026and to show it again: [code lang=”bash”]\/Developer\/Tools\/SetFile -a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-mac-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}