Dave Carrigan wrote:
That's just the finder being nice to the non-techies. The longer
"if you name this with a dot then you'll have to hit a special key
combination in order to see it" explanation is more confusing and
unnecessary. It certainly doesn't mean that .files are not allowed
or are going to become unsupported, at least until Mac OS X is
deprecated in favor of some completely different operating system.
And speaking of confusing and unnecessary, it's unclear whether the
OP is asking how to name an item so it will be hidden, or how to hide
an existing item whose name can't be changed. If it's the former
then "start its name with dot" is one possible answer. If it's the
latter, then renaming isn't possible, so any debate about renaming it
is both confusing and unnecessary.
I suspect it may be the latter, since the OP mentioned a mounted
disk, and one doesn't usually rename disks willy-nilly. That's just
a guess, though.
I think the best answer is "Please clarify exactly what you're trying
to accomplish. Do you want to create an item that is hidden, or do
you want to hide an existing item whose name you can't change?".
In any case, even hidden items can be made visible in Finder:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder
So if the OP is trying to hide something to prevent any user from
seeing it under any circumstances, then that may be futile, or
misguided at best.
-- GG
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