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I have one folder where ExifRenamer (some tool for renaming images by date created) put my renamed pictures, but I cannot see them from Finder. I can see the files with ls -la but I cannot see it from Finder. How can I change make it "normal"
CMD SHIFT dot (.) won't show files.
-rw------- 1 nemb staff 6033609 May 1 18:19 2019-05-01_18-19-42.jpg
-rw-------@ 1 nemb staff 4645069 May 4 21:02 2019-05-01_18-30-14.jpg
In the terminal, do this:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall Finder
After this, there'll be nothing on your Desktop (but still in ~/Desktop, i.e. your Desktop Folder). It'll look like this:
Beautiful, isn't it? If you want to change it back:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true && killall Finder
There are 2 kinds of hidden files on OS X.
Files starting with . are normally hidden in Unix (including OS X) or Linux systems, but can easily be shown e.g. by ls -la.
In addition certain files (or directories) are hidden by OS X apps ( ~/Library is one example) and generally files inside bundles (such as .apps) are not normally visible.
It is easy to show hidden files in Finder (by changing settings defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE). This then applies to all files.
Finder addons such as TotalFinder make changing this easier and Finder alternatives such as QuollEyeTree http://binnie.id.au/QuollEyeTree.html let you toggle this for individual directories and show both kinds of hidden files.
Best Answer
Try
sudo mv -r /path/to/.folder /path/to/newfolderFor example, if the folder was named.images, was located on your desktop, and you wanted to see it asimages2you would typesudo mv -r Desktop/.images Desktop/images2.You could also try running
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YESand then relaunch Finder, which would instead show all files and folders, including hidden ones (anything starting with a .).