Re: showing hidden folders in finder

2013-07-03 Thread Chris Blouch
While I haven't tried this you supposedly can do the following two commands in the terminal to enable hidden files in the finder: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder After that the finder should show everything. Ditto on the aforementioned caveats. CB On 7/

Re: showing hidden folders in finder

2013-07-03 Thread Ray Foret jr
Actually, there's Tinker Tool which will do the job for yuh. Tim's causion is, however, very well given; and, were I you, I'd heed it. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac a

Re: showing hidden folders in finder

2013-07-03 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Unless you use a Utility like Invisiblix, this is only possible using the Terminal. I'm not sure about the accessibility of Invisiblix as I've never used it but a search on the web claims that it is a utility that will accomplish this without using Terminal. A couple of things to note, ev

showing hidden folders in finder

2013-07-03 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, I would like to see the hidden folders on my external drive but i am not all that good with terminal, is there a way to have fidner show hidden files/folders? Thanks Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To un