Macintosh HD hidden folders visible

[jrsx]

Can anyone explain why my Macintosh HD folder looks like this? I've tried to run the chflags hidden command in terminal to hide these folders but it just repeats "Permission denied". Why is this?

 

[Intell]

Have you run the chflags command via sudo? Sometimes an improperly cloned installation will show those folders.

 

[Bruno09]

Try this :

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false ;killall Finder

 

[jrsx]

Have you run the chflags command via sudo? Sometimes an improperly cloned installation will show those folders.

Hmm, I tried the command and it did work for all the folders accept the alias folders.. any idea how to get rid of them?