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Show hidden files (not in OS X)

Show hidden files (not in OS X) General 3 posts Sep 29, 2009 — Sep 30, 2009

#1 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 - 19:40

Just wondering is there any control panel or extension that can get the Finder to always show hidden files? Currently I have to use DiskTop to see what I'm not supposed to see. It does the job fine, I'm just curious if there are other ways that I've missed.

#2 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 - 19:56

Modify the Finder to ignore the Hidden attribute for files. I have no idea how this would be done, though.

#3 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 - 00:01

I eventually found one called Snitch (once Google stopped giving me Snow Leopard hits) which kinda did what I wanted but it was a bit messy.

Then I found FileBuddy and that's perfect!