On Nov 28, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Ariel Feinerman wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> how to check whether a file is hidden in Finder? There seems file manager
>> has no any methods to change file`s visibility like lchflags().
> 
> There are three different things that can cause a file to be hidden in the 
> Finder:
> 
> 1. If it has a . at the beginning of its name
> 2. If its hidden bit is set (you can check for this using the Carbon file 
> manager)
> 3. If its name comes up inside the .hidden file in the same folder (if such a 
> file exists)
> 
> And yes, I have a bug open on this asking for a way to do this using 
> NSFileManager.

As of 10.6, the recommendation is to use NSURL for referencing files and 
accessing their metadata.  In particular, see 
-getResourceValue:forKey:error:/-setResourceValue:forKey:error: and 
NSURLIsHiddenKey.

Regards,
Ken

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