How to hide folders

You can't hide folders by changing permissions. You can by renaming them to .whatever, but the application won't recognize it and will simply create a new one. My advice? Grin and bear it.

 

Open up the terminal application and use the following command:
sudo chflags hidden ~/Documents/(whatever folder you want to hide)
This will hide the folder from your view without adding a . at the beginning of the directory(folder). I've never tried it, but I assume your programs should still be able to find these folders. Don't know for sure though.

 

You could just create your own folder (dare I say, "My Documents") and use that to organize your own files. Let Adobe and MS take over your Documents folder.

 

Thanks, I just used that tip to hide: /opts