The steps to create the service are give below. This will cause either pop shown below to appear. When I want to toggle the viewing of hidden files, I select "Toggle Hidden Files" from the Finder services submenu as shown below. I created a service using the Automator application. What I offer below differs by a dialog informing you of the current status.
SHOW HIDDEN FILES OSX HOW TO
See How to set ⌘ + H to enable show hidden files. In my haste to post my answer, I did not realize the second part has already has been answered. Below is how I have handled the second part for my own use. Why is this hidden away somewhere? What purpose does it serve to not allow a user to easily open a file?
And I tried the View menu looking for a "show all files" with the File Open dialog open. I tried to right click to get a context menu in the File Open dialog in hopes of checking a box like "show all files". As can be seen above, typing the filename in Finder (or is it Spotlight) search did not work. bash_profile does exist in the home directory: $ ls ~/.bash_profileĪ related question. But Gnome hotkeys don't work on OS X (which is expected).įor completeness. Linux and Gnome allow us to CTRL+ H to toggle between showing and hiding hidden files. Rather, I want to switch it on when needed. However, I don't want to always show them, and that's what defaults write. How to show hidden files and folders in finder? is also related. This question is very similar to Is it possible to always show hidden/dotfiles in Open/Save dialogs?.
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