Visible "Private" folder??

[Les Kern]

For some reason unknown to me, my "private" folder is visible. I've done all the "usual" things and even have an Automator action that shows and hides invisible files, but I just can't make it invisible again. Now this isn't really a BAD thing as I know how to poke around in there, but still... it's a mystery to me.
Thanks.

 

[J the Ninja]

sudo SetFile -a V /private

That should take care of it

 

[angelwatt]

Hope into Terminal and do,

ls -lO /

Those are lowercase L (2 of them) and the letter O, not a zero. You should see a line like,

drwxr-xr-x@   6 root      wheel  hidden  204B Aug 14 16:51 private/

If you don't see "hidden" then that's why you can see it. To return to hidden state,

sudo chflags hidden /private/

 

[Les Kern]

sudo chflags hidden /private/

That worked,
Thanks....
Wonder why that happened..... (rhetorical)