I used to use this shell script to toggle hidden files without having to restart finder with killall.
Unfortunately now when I run the script via hotkey nothing happens. If I force restart finder it will load, but that defeats the purpose of doing the toggle in realtime without restarting.
Unfortunately now when I run the script via hotkey nothing happens. If I force restart finder it will load, but that defeats the purpose of doing the toggle in realtime without restarting.
Code:
set newHiddenVisiblesState to "YES"
try
set oldHiddenVisiblesState to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles"
if oldHiddenVisiblesState is in {"1", "YES"} then
set newHiddenVisiblesState to "NO"
end if
end try
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles " & newHiddenVisiblesState
tell application "Finder"
set theWindows to every Finder window
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theWindows
set this_item to item i of theWindows
set theView to current view of this_item
if theView is list view then
set current view of this_item to icon view
else
set current view of this_item to list view
end if
set current view of this_item to theView
end repeat
end tell
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