On 6/15/04 2:42 PM, Marta Edie at mledie at insightbb.com wrote: > How and where do I turn on invisible files? God knows what all I might > have been missing, since I seem to know only that side of the Mac > that reveals itself to me through the familiar clicking procedures. > Marta
Marta, If you turn on invisible files your head will explode. And then one of us will have to clean up the mess. Both Windows and Macs make use of invisible files to handle tasks best left to the computer and not the user. Would you like to see all the Windows invisible files too or are you just interested in the Mac ones? WARNING!!!!!!! READING BELOW THIS LINE WILL CAUSE YOUR HEAD TO EXPLODE---- You can use on of several free applications to see the invisible files. I would suggest TinkerTool since it is free. Once you see your invisible files, you will no doubt ask what each one does. I have anticipated this and am setting aside 5 hours tonight to describe each file and folder in detail. This of course does NOT include all the UNIX binaries and their relevant files. You also have a file called .Hidden. Anything at the root level of the disk added to this file also becomes hidden. Information overload WILL occur. I suggest sleeping on plastic just in case. Schoun | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
