To do this, you can either press option+command+esc to open the Force Quit Applications window, select Finder from the list and hit “Relaunch”, or simply type in the code below in the Terminal window, and again press enter. Nothing will happen yet, because you need to restart Finder for the changes to take effect.

Okay now, right after the dollar sign you can go ahead and type or paste in the code below, and press enter.

As such make sure you’ve read the code below carefully and have typed it exactly as written! You have been warned. It’s not unsafe to do, you just have to be very careful not to type in any commands that you don’t intend to.

Yes, I name all of my hard drives after hops varietals.)Ī quick note before you do anything: using Terminal without knowing what you’re doing can really screw up your computer. The terminal window that pops up should look something like this, with your hard drive and user name in place of mine. If you’ve never used this, it’s here: Applications → Utilities → Terminal To show hidden files, first open up the Terminal app. htaccess and other hidden files to change something about your server setup, usually and server configurtations. Sometimes when you’re coding for the web, you need to see the. Most hidden files will begin with a period. htaccess file, because I work with WordPress frequently. Note how it begins with the period (dot) because htaccess is actually the file extension, not the file name. The most common example that I come across is the. Mac OSX (and other operating systems) hide them by default so there’s less clutter, and so you don’t accidentally delete something important. Have you ever noticed the “extra” files that you can see in your FTP client, yet seem to be missing from the local version of the site on your computer? Chances are, those files are on your local computer too, you just can’t see them. – (jump to app update) Who’s hiding what? Update 2014: there’s a third-party app for this now Update Aug 2019: you can do it with a simple keyboard shortcut As my students frequently ask for it, I’m posting here to keep in a reference. This method has been posted all over the place, but I haven’t found a good step-by-step walkthrough that explains how and why to show hidden files on a Mac.

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