Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- Subject: Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- From: Dave Camp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:41:00 -0700
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:50 AM, David Patrick Henderson wrote:
Depends on one's definition of "supported". One cannot rename a file
or folder in the Finder directly with a leading '.', or a ':'.
Attempting to do so will cause warning dialogs for all these cases
(and perhaps of which I am unaware). So one can certainly claim that
the Finder does not support these cases; however, the Finder will
handle these files if created through some other medium such as a
terminal program.
It has nothing to do with the Finder "supporting" it. Obviously the
Finder does not display files starting with dots because it was
designed to do so. It purposefully hides files that the average user
does not need to see.
The Finder won't let you pre-pend a dot to the file because it
purposefully does not show files that start with a dot. If it let you
add the dot, the file would suddenly be hidden and a normal user (i.e.
someone without Terminal knowledge) would have no way of getting it
back. It's a safety feature.
Dave
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