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An AppleScript to quickly show or hide hidden files
Authored by: duboisj on Apr 27, '03 12:40:04PM
I want the finder to show files which have a '.' at the beginning of their names, but not to show files which are listed in the .hidden file of each folder. It seems that setting AppleShowAllFiles shows *all* files, without looking at the .hidden file. Unsetting AppleShowAllFiles makes it so that '.' files are hidden.

Is there any way to get more selective hiding? Thanks!

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An AppleScript to quickly show or hide hidden files
Authored by: brettpat on May 19, '03 07:03:19AM

I'm looking for a script to show only '.htaccess' files, (and leave all others hidden) so they show in the Finder and within GoLive.

Is there a way to do this, perhaps as a script at startup?



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An AppleScript to quickly show or hide hidden files
Authored by: toothfish on Jul 27, '03 09:23:31PM
I'd be interested if anyone comes up with a solution to this as well-- or possibly the inverse. the only files i'm not interested in seeing would be .DS_Store, etc. any dot-files i download from my webserver i'd like to be visible, and they're not always .htaccess. sort of the same result, though.

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Showing . files
Authored by: jglenn on Aug 26, '03 05:23:37PM

this is close to what you want:

In the Finder, type command-F, then add criteria, and choose visibility. Set visibility to Off, and then do a search on words whose filename starts with "."

You'll get all the hidden files that begin with . , but you get them even if they are listed in the "hidden" database. Hope that's not a problem.



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