Matthew S. Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 Okay since OS X is Unix and the file system somewhat follows the Unix conventions why can't I create a hidden folder in Finder? (.FolderName) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 Okay since OS X is Unix and the file system somewhat follows the Unix conventions why can't I create a hidden folder in Finder? (.FolderName) I'm not on my mac right now so I can't test it but it should work..... you can always use the command line mkdir .FolderName Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew S. Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 *erm* i'd like a lazy way please... also how do you show hidden folders in finder or whats the command to open finder from a terminal window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 Opening a finder window or launching Finder? Finder will always restart when it's terminated. As for opening a window, that's as easy as open DIRECTORY So, for instance, "open ~" would open your home directory in Finder. As for .whatever, Finder will not allow you to create those and there's no way that I know of to change that, but "mkdir .whatever" doesn't seem much harder to me. Hell, you can even make any folder (regardless of having a preceding .) hidden from Finder by doing chflags hidden DIRECTORY You can enable Finder to show hidden files by doing defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder To reverse that defaults delete com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles killall Finder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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