Help with making files invisible again....

[oreocracker]

There are 'Network', 'Servers' and .DS_Store icons on my desktop and I'd like to get rid of them. I think they are supposed to be invisble. I've tried XRAY, but it doesn't seem to work.

They got there because I had to change things in the 'Termimal' Utility to see files on my ipod that I needed to add other files to.

I don't know how to get them off now. When I drag the Network and Servers icons to the trash, it says 'Disconnect'. When I drag the .DS_Store icon to the trash, it says it's an invisible file and can't be copied.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?

 

[Cromulent]

You shouldn't have had to have changed anything in the terminal in order to see hidden files. Simply navigate to the directory that you wanted to see all the hidden files in and do a

ls -lsa

and that will show all the system files and hidden files to you while not changing the finder in the slightest. The only thing I can suggest would be to undo the changes you made previously to the terminal. What were they exactly? Did you modify any configuration files?

 

[iMeowbot]

You probably used this command to make hidden files visible:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 1

To undo it, use

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 0

You will then want to restart the Finder to kick the changes over: ctrl-option-click its Dock icon, and pick Relaunch from the menu.

To get rid of the unwanted drive icons, look in Finder's preferences under the General tab, and uncheck Connected Servers.

 

[grace289]

THANK YOU.

I had those files visible for the longest time and didn't know how to hide them again. you ROCK.