"usr" a system folder has appeared, how to hide it????

[alam]

hello
my macintosh has shown a folder from no where on my mac "usr", it wasn't there before.... weird, i think it's a system folder! how to hide this folder??
tnxs for reading the message.

 

[Am3822]

When you go inside the folder, using Finder, what do you see? If this is indeed a genuine system folder, then running the following commands in Terminal.app should hide it (but it's surprising that it has turned up all of a sudden) --

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

It's just a guess, but have you recently installed anything from a .tgz/.zip file, or maybe compiled some source code?

 

[alam]

When you go inside the folder, using Finder, what do you see? If this is indeed a genuine system folder, then running the following commands in Terminal.app should hide it (but it's surprising that it has turned up all of a sudden) --

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

It's just a guess, but have you recently installed anything from a .tgz/.zip file, or maybe compiled some source code?

actually i've installed few programs i need after i had restored my imac, so maybe your right, tnx any way, i've tried you're way.... but it didn't work, but i found a web tells me another:-

http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/toovisible.html

it's better i guess
tnx

 

[Am3822]

Odd thing, that -- I've tested my advice (on 10.5.4) and it worked well. Anyway, I hope that the other advice worked.