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Create hidden yet easy-to-access folders
Authored by: i5m on Aug 01, '05 10:19:19AM

From macnn forums (not my post):

Making arbitrary directories invisible is handy. (For example, I don't need to be seeing Microsoft User Data in my Documents folder.)

/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V filename will make filename invisible, and /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v filename will make filename visible again.

You have to restart the Finder after making an invisible file visible.



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Microsoft User Data
Authored by: taran on Aug 01, '05 10:56:33AM

After hiding ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data, I symlinked it to ~/Library/Application Support (ln -s ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data ~/Library/Application\ Support) which is where $DEITY intended it should be.

<rant>
C'mon Microsoft, you've had 5+ years and two versions of your crapware for OS X and you still can't put things where they belong?
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escape spaces
Authored by: taran on Aug 01, '05 10:59:11AM

oops, lost my slashes somewhere

ln -s ~/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data ~/Library/Application\ Support



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escape spaces
Authored by: taran on Aug 01, '05 11:02:30AM

no, they're getting lost in submit when using HTML and the code tag (they show up in preview)



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Create hidden yet easy-to-access folders
Authored by: sgi_oh_too on Aug 01, '05 12:51:19PM

If you put the "Microsoft User Data" folder in your ~/Library/Preferences folder, then it will work just fine. This is because Microsoft's apps look there for the folder as well as looking in your ~/Documents



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Create hidden yet easy-to-access folders
Authored by: adrianm on Aug 22, '05 03:00:41AM

The new MSN messenger puts this directory back.



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