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Apple invisible items question.

Asked by MarkHeftler (162points) | asked October 27th, 2007 | 1 response | “Great Question” (0points) | Flag as…

What’s an easy way to make invisible items on an apple visible? I’m not connected to the net right now, so no external software. I think there’s a terminal command for it…

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To display hidden files in Mac OS X, type the following two commands in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

To hide the files again, type:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

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