Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- Subject: Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- From: M Pulis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:51:13 -0700
On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
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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