Mike, Get Tinkertool <http://www.bresink.de/osx/> It will let you change the settings without using the Terminal. One of the settings turns on/off invisible System files. Milton On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Michael :-} wrote: > hello all, > > recently, I restarted my Ti-book 500 and for some weird reason the > .DS_store, .Trashes, and other invisibles are now visible!!?? > Not sure what happened or what to do to make things go back to normal. > Any Ideas? > Mike