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Apple invisible items question.

Asked by MarkHeftler (182points) October 27th, 2007 from iPhone

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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