SOLVED In need of script to turn off view of normally hidden folders

[royks]

Hello,

From an interesting Apple forum discussion of a problem I was having, that I can't find again, I saw and ran a Terminal script which would show all folders of a drive, including normally hidden ones that are grayed out.

Please see attached pic.

I now can't find that specific discussion, and don't know how to turn off seeing the hidden folders.

Does anyone know a script to run to turn off that view? I would very much appreciate knowing.

Regards
Royks

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello and welcome.

These are the common Terminal commands to show/hide the hidden files in OS X/macOS:

Show

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Hide

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

As always, it is highly recommended to have a current Time Machine or other backup of your data.

C