Re: Make a file visible
Re: Make a file visible
- Subject: Re: Make a file visible
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:07:25 -0700
At 17:51 +0100 12/14/02, Thomas wrote:
>
Hi all, I was wondering if I could use AppleScript to make a file visible / invisible on OS X (without any scripting addition) ?
SetFile -a v POSIXpath
is the UNIX tool. And it's case sensitive if hashing is active (the default) in your chosen shell. You need to have the Developer Tools installed and a pointer to /Developer/Tools included in your PATH variable. In AppleScript you could:
do shell script '/Developer/Tools /SetFile -a v POSIXpath'
The v is case sensitive. V will make the file invisible The a stands for attribute and there are others. "man SetFile" is pretty complete.
But SetFile deals with visibility in the MacOS 9/HFS+ sense. Files with names beginning in a period are invisible for other reasons. Those can be made visible en masse using a setting which is most easily changed using TinkerTool. (Google should find it for a free download.) I don't think you can change their visibility on a one by one basis but there is an interesting file on the UNIX root called .hidden which you might want to look at.
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