Re: making the Documents folder visible
Re: making the Documents folder visible
- Subject: Re: making the Documents folder visible
- From: Laine Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:47:41 -0600
- Thread-topic: making the Documents folder visible
On 12/15/07 4:01 PM, "John Mitchell" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have somehow lost the visibility of my Documents folder in my Users folder.
> (I think due to some applecscripting of a FileMaker file Documents .fp7)
>
> I can see it using Invisibility Toggler , can make an item in the Finder panel
> but of course disappears when I reset visibility back to normal
>
> As I presume it has special privileges (Script Debugger's Explorer view shows
> it not editable), I have had not success scripting the change:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set fContainer to choose folder "Check folder properties"
> set thisItemsInfo to info for fContainer
> open fContainer
> tell fContainer to set visible to true
> end tell
>
> I cannot work out a method of changing the setting from false to true
>
> any ideas?
>
Install developer tools (available from Apple), paste the following command
line into a Terminal window and press return or enter.
SetFile -a v -P ~/Documents
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Laine Lee
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