Making Hidden Files Active????

[landonveitch]

Hey everyone. I am a new Mac owner so if I seem a little misguided I do apologize but I need some help.

I created myself an Automator action to show my hidden files and it runs great. Now that I can see the hidden files, how do I make them so they are no longer hidden files?

I ask because I have an MP3 album that has the folder.jpg file in it but it is hidden file. Now I can see it with my Automator action but how do I make it so its an active file and not hidden so I can rename it, move it and use the artwork in my iTunes because iTunes doesn't recognize hidden files?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance

 

[DewGuy1999]

Not sure why you want to do this, or what effect it will have on things, but files beginning with a dot (.) are invisible. Rename the file so the file name doesn't begin with a dot and it should be visible.

 

[landonveitch]

Yeah I found that information but that does not apply to me for that the file does not have a "." infront of it. Here is a screenshot of my desktop. As you can see from my highlighted item, its hidden but I cant access it. Any other ideas?

 

[angelwatt]

You can try out Hide Folders for Mac, though I can't remember the method it uses to hide if it's the . at the beginning of the file name or if it uses another method.

Another thing to try. From Terminal,

SetFile -a v path/to/file

or just rename the files from Terminal,

mv path/to/file path/to/newfile

 

[DewGuy1999]

Yeah I found that information but that does not apply to me for that the file does not have a "." infront of it. Here is a screenshot of my desktop. As you can see from my highlighted item, its hidden but I cant access it. Any other ideas?

I don't have any experiance with it, but it looks like this will do the trick for you (and a bunch more) File Sheriff. It's free for 14-days and then $14.95 if you want to keep using it.

 

[landonveitch]

thanks for the 411 fellas I will give those a try. Thanks!