Re: Make a file visible
Re: Make a file visible
- Subject: Re: Make a file visible
- From: Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:26:59 +0100
Too complex ! I give up.
Thanks Thomas
Doug McNutt wrote :
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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