• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: graphical Terminal?
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: graphical Terminal?


  • Subject: Re: graphical Terminal?
  • From: hotblack <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 17:33:02 +0000

does anyone know how to view hidden directories like usr/bin/,
var/, etc. in the Finder? it's a pain to have to go to Terminal
all the time to work with these directories and their files.

Rename the .hidden file that is in the root of the harddisk.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1

A slightly more elegant way of doing this (IMHO) is to use PropertyListEditor to add the Property AppleShowAllFiles (with class 'Boolean' and Value 'Yes') to the com.apple.finder.plist file in an individual users Preferences folder.
(/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist)
In this way the Finder just needs to be restarted, no sudo'ing is needed every time you wish to view the files and it only affects a single user (useful on multi-user or networked machines).
Hope this helps ;)
Cheers

ben
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

References: 
 >RE: graphical Terminal? (Ruud Steenvoorden) (From: "Ruud Steenvoorden" <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: displaying parts of views
  • Next by Date: NSTableView
  • Previous by thread: RE: graphical Terminal? (Ruud Steenvoorden)
  • Next by thread: PackageMaker package resources question
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread