<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Richard,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You can use utilities like TinkerTool
or SNAX etc. to turn them on/off or if you're happy to do it in the Terminal
do the following:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>To make all files and folders VISIBLE
type:<br>
</b>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true<br>
<br>
<b>To make all files and folders INVISIBLE type:<br>
</b>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles false</font>
<p><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Once done you will either need to force-quit
the Finder or "Log Out" then back in before you will see the
changes.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You can also use the Terminal to Force
Quit the Finder by doing the following:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To find the Finder process id:<br>
ps ax | grep Finder [then press Enter]<br>
<br>
Then to kill the process:<br>
kill pid [then press Enter] [pid = the process id number you
found doing the above]</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For example:<br>
Brett:~ brett$ ps ax | grep Finder</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 474 ?? S
0:10.38 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacO</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 822 std S+
0:00.00 grep Finder</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Brett:~ brett$ kill 349<br>
</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cheers,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Coj</font>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Richard Gilmore <rgilmor@uwo.ca></b></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt><br>
How do you make the Finder show invisible files?<br>
<br>
> ctrl-X to exit the program; yes to save it.<br>
> <br>
> Remember that unless you have the Finder set to show invisible files,<br>
> you won't be able to see it in the finder<br>
</tt></font>
<br>