Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- Subject: Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:31:16 -0700
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM, M Pulis <email@hidden> wrote:
> Please do not advise this hack. It is not supported by the Finder.
Erm? The Finder very much supports not displaying dot files. And
open/save dialogs even support toggling their display (Cmd-Opt-. I
believe?)
> The Finder does not show nor allow users to create "dot" files nor
> directories because they are reserved for the system.
No they're not. Do an ls -al in your home directory and you'll see
how not-reserved dot files are.
._ files, on the other hand, are resource-fork containers and
shouldn't be touched. And .DS_Store files should be burned at the
stake. :)
> Unless you can absolutely prove that your file fits Apple specs for a
> legitimately installed "dot" system file that is not the best practice to
> make a non-system file invisible. Seek an alternative. There are temp
> directories and other legit facilities.
What Apple spec? Dot files have been part of UNIX for decades.
> Under prior Mac OS's, dot files were divers. You could trash a system by
> rebooting after saving a file with the name ".sony".
You also couldn't have a file name with a colon in it back then.
Times have changed.
> Even if 10.6 doesn't barf, there is no guarantee that your
> unknown-to-Apple-and-you-were-warned-not-to-do-this dot file will not
> corrupt future systems or not be casually destroyed in the background as
> part of a system cleanup properly identifying (your) suspicious files as
> viral data.
Now you're just making things up. There exists no evidence or reason
for any of the results you portend.
--Kyle Sluder
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