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After reading ALL OF THE THREADS...
I've combined everything in to one top level post, so other don't have to dig as deep as I did.
The best implementation of this concept is a single AppleScript that toggles the visibility of hidden unix files without user input. (Once ran by the user.)
I call this Script "Toggle invisible Unix files" and I have is sitting in my Finder Window Toolbar.
I tested the "Delay 1" which is necessary to get the changes done before Finder is told to launch. It seams that you can drop it to "Delay 0.25" which still works, but causes it to run much faster. (about 4x)
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Whoops, OnOff becoming inOff!
The variable name changes from OnOff on line 1 to inOff on line 2, because of the macoshints software, e.g. geeklog -- or so it would appear! For some reason it leaves the first line alone, but on the second line it changes OnOff to inOff -- try it for yourself, just preview your post but don't submit it. -- it works 'unprotected' and also when wrapped in \[code\]\[/code\] tags -- heh, just found another way to break the software, try previewing \[code\]\[/code\] with less backslashes to protect the brackets -- when I did it looked like this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7447497 bytes) in /home/virtual/site40/fst/var/www/html/lib-common.php on line 2746 Here is a corrected version of the above, using stateOfShowAllFiles instead of OnOff, thus making it macoshints compatible! What an upgrade! Oh, and I made a number of other changes as well, enjoy! To be fair to geeklog this might be an older version of the software and of course it may be a known bug that is being/will be fixed -- anyone want to to track that down?The code below works perfectly on my G4 running 10.3.7.
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