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Babaganouche - 27 Mar 2005 01:59 GMT

How do I get rid of the period which is the first sumbol in the name of an
invisible file, in order to make the file visible???

TIA

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Bill Lee - 27 Mar 2005 02:38 GMT

> How do I get rid of the period which is the first sumbol in the name of an
> invisible file, in order to make the file visible???

You don't, unless you like running the risk of breaking your system. The
system will not be able to find these files if you go around changing
the name without good reasons. These files are invisible for a good
reason: so people don't trash them or modify them without some
understanding of why they are there in the first place.

If you need to open this file for some reason, then make a copy of it in
the Terminal application.

1) Open Terminal.app
2) cd <whichever folder you wanted to go to>
3) cp .<filename you wanted to open> ~/<filename you wanted to open>

Example:
2) cd /
3) cp .hidden ~/hidden
4) Open "hidden" file with TextEdit.app

Bill Lee

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Geoff Walker - 27 Mar 2005 17:40 GMT

Another way to change visibility is via the excellent shareware utility
FileTyper :

http://dazuma.freeshell.org/filetyper/

Even though it's pre-OSX it seems to work perfectly on OSX. I use it
mainly for changing type and creator codes.

> How do I get rid of the period which is the first sumbol in the name of an
> invisible file, in order to make the file visible???
>
> TIA
>
> Babaganouche

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