Cmd-Shift-. toggles visibility of hidden files

[Analog Kid]

Maybe this is already broadly known, but I just discovered it and it made my life sooo much easier:

Pressing Cmd-Shift-. toggles visibility of hidden files in finder.

Press it once and your hidden files are visible, press it again and they go away. I have no idea how long this has existed but it is so much nicer than going to terminal and writing to the system defaults, or some of these Automator hacks.

Actually, can someone confirm this is an OS feature and that I'm not activating an Automator script I've left laying around somewhere on my system?

 

[chabig]

I didn't know that one. But it does indeed work.

 

[mikzn]

confirmed - very cool - thanks!

 

[fisherking]

nice find! thank you...

 

[DeltaMac]

First time seeing that! Works here, too... Good find!

 

[iMacDragon]

That's.. a new one on me too, wonder if that's new?

 

[fisherking]

huh. googling finds things like this (from 2011), yet i've never heard about it until this thread...
http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/01/show-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x-dialog-boxes-with-commandshiftperiod/

 

[DeltaMac]

huh. googling finds things like this (from 2011), yet i've never heard about it until this thread...
http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/01/show-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x-dialog-boxes-with-commandshiftperiod/

That article only shows that command working in file save/open dialog boxes. I tried that on my Lion system, where it does not work outside of those dialog boxes.
Anybody know when it was made available system-wide?

 

[trifid]

Wow nice find, extremely useful, thanks for sharing.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Was either introduced in El Capitan or Sierra. Just went to the Yosemite machine and it doesn't work there, it just makes the "Funk" sound effect.

 

[Nermal]

That article only shows that command working in file save/open dialog boxes. I tried that on my Lion system, where it does not work outside of those dialog boxes.
Anybody know when it was made available system-wide?

It does not work on my 10.11.6 system, but does under 10.12.1. Presumably it was introduced in 10.12.0.

 

[fisherking]

That article only shows that command working in file save/open dialog boxes. I tried that on my Lion system, where it does not work outside of those dialog boxes.
Anybody know when it was made available system-wide?

ah, apologies... anyway, it's a great find now...

 

[1024724]

supercool!