Is there a way to hide folders in OSX like you can in Windows? And if so then how?
MacOS – How to hide folders in OSX
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See this this morning on Mac OS X Hints.com:
I agree that in the case of pros, this All my files thing is quite useless because there is way too many files. This is more a consumer-level thing.
Because of a lot of complaints of people used to the Windows way, merging folders is now a feature in OSX Lion :
This merge dialog will only show up if:
- destination folder isn't empty
- destination folder contents are different from to be copied one
So the way to merge folders in an officially supported way is to upgrade to Lion :-)
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Best Answer
The command-line way:
Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) and type
replacing
/path/to/folderwith the POSIX-style path to the folder you want to hide (for example, a folder on your desktop called test would be~/Desktop/test).To unhide it, type
chflags nohidden /path/to/folder.The freeware way:
I haven't used it, but I've seen the app Hide Folders, by Altomac.