OS X Invisible Folders Question

iN8 said:

Here's the story:

The directory on my main drive got corrupted beyond being fixable DiskWarrior, TechTool et al. I had a clone of the drive on an external drive that I used to re-image my hard drive with Disk Utility's Restore feature..

Here's the problem:

Now all of the invisible folders ( etc, tmp, var ) are visible. How can I hide these again?

Thanks for your help.

iN8

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Willehard said:

open terminal
then rename the files like this: mv /etc /.etc


but maybe its not a good idea to do it this way, just noticed that the folders etc, var, etc. are visible in terminal but not in finder, dont know why...

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