Comments on: Toggle hidden file viewing in Mac OS X

By: cheung

cheung — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:55:00 +0000

Not sure why but the previous post chose to ignore a few of the line breaks in my code. I’m not sure if it would mess it up or not, but here it is again (hopefully it works):

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px ‘Andale Mono’}

VALUE=$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles).
if [ "$VALUE" = FALSE ]; then.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE.
else
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE.
fi
osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to quit’;.
osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to activate’;.

By: cheung

cheung — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:00 +0000

Here’s an update incase anyone stumbles onto this page. I was messing around with making an Automator service so you could just right click in a Finder window and show or hide the hidden files/folders. Here’s a link to the website where most of the code came from:

http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-showhide-hidden-files/

But with their’s you needed two services and I wanted more of a toggle one, so I wrote up my own script. You can follow their directions, except in Snow Leopard you just “Save as” rather than “Save as plugin”, and paste in my code below rather than their’s:

VALUE=$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles).
if [ "$VALUE" = FALSE ]; then.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE.
elsedefaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE.fiosascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to quit’;.osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to activate’;.

Also, their code used the bash “killall” command which made you lose your open Finder window, but mine is a bit more subtle and just closes and reopens Finder allowing you to keep your place in Finder.

The only weird thing I’ve noticed is that my Finder icon in the dock seems to get translucent like it’s hidden. I’m not sure why…

By: cheung

cheung — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:04:07 +0000

hey man, nice bit of code. I can’t say I’ve really got a need to see my hidden files, but cool any way.

I was actually just thinking about you, dood. I was just playing with a bit of code that switched my sleep mode on leopard to the “hibernation” mode that XP uses. I was thinking about what a pain in the ass it was to have to use terminal everytime I wanted to switch between the two. My initial thought was that this was the perfect excuse I needed to play with writing a short AppleScript prog but I wasn’t sure even where to start.

Oh yea, when are you going to get around to making your site iPhone compatible? . )