Re: Hidden Folders
Re: Hidden Folders
- Subject: Re: Hidden Folders
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:39:30 -0800
I can't agree with this; it just further obscures why these directories
are invisible to the Finder, and uglies up OSX and the Finder while
encouraging the notion that the contents should be dealt with in a GUI
way, while in most cases these files are useless from Finder anyway. I
suggest you won't learn much about the contents of these directories by
browsing them in the Finder, and as such they are best left invisible
to the Finder. Double clicking a unix executable will do little to help
learn what it is; but 10 minutes of good shell instruction will help
someone who's eager to learn, find their way around and begin to
understand the shell environment. Otherwise, they are just going to see
a bunch of useless, ugly files in the Finder, and do what I've seen too
many newbies with TinkerTool do - begin to delete anything they don't
see an immediate need for.
Not suggesting this is a harmful tip at all, mind you. Anyway, I
wouldn't (if I were the OP) do it unless I was really aware of what I'm
doing (adding a bunch of links, like aliases, to things that are
normally invisible and will now be quite visible at the root of your
drive)... maybe on a one by one basis if he needs visible links in his
root to all these directories. But man, humanizing OSX?
-R
On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 07:12 -0800 1/10/05, Gil Dawson wrote:
Could someone please explain how I can see these directories...
Repost. Some folks have found this helpful.
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:06:48 -0600
To: AppleScript <email@hidden>
From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
I have taken to running these as a part of my way to humanize OS neXt.
cd /
sudo ln -s /private/var _var
sudo ln -s /Volumes _Volumes
sudo ln -s /sbin _sbin
sudo ln -s /bin _bin
sudo ln -s /private/etc _etc
sudo ln -s /usr _usr
cd ~
ln .netrc _netrc
ln .tcshrc _tcshrc
ln .telnetrc _telnetrc
ln -s .MacOSX _MacOSX
ln -s .cpan _cpan
The effect is to create visible hard or symbolic links to the things
that Apple insists on hiding. One can also set Finder to show all
files but that creates a problem with the .DSstore files that one
really wants to be hidden. If you show them in icon modes they jump
around all over the window.
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