Hi Teresa, I'll paste in what I sent to John a yesterday. It should work the same for you. Remember that these items should remain visible: Applications, Library, System, and Users. There may be other items such as User Guides and Information and/or any files you may have purposely or accidentally saved there.
Try this in Terminal, the stuff in brackets is just for your info, it doesn't need typed: cd / (should put you to the root level) ls (Will list your files at that level. Just to ensure ther isn't a double of the offending file) chflags hidden /filename (where "filename" is the exact filename of the offending file) You should be able to Quit Terminal and the file should now be hidden. HTH. Later... On 2012-03-26, at 1:05 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all, > > I don't remember how I enabled this, but all my hidden files are showing in > Finder. I'd like to hide them again, with the exception of the root and user > libraries. How can I do this, either with Finder or in Terminal? I'm only a > beginning Terminal user, so be gentle, please. :) > > Thanks, > Teresa > > "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. > Feynman > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
