10.6: A Service to show/hide hidden files

Jul 20, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: colmiak

Snow Leopard only hintThere are many ways to show and hide the various hidden files and folders in Mac OS X. This one is an update to an older Automator workflow method. The previous method was to create a plug-in in Automator; now a pair of Services are used, so this hint only applies to Snow Leopard. Refer to the previous hint for usage in either Leopard or Tiger.

Here's how to do it:

That's all, now when you right click a file or folder, these options will show up at the bottom of the list.

To delete these Services go to ~/Library/Services and just move both files to the trash.

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described.]

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