{"id":369,"date":"2014-12-11T11:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T06:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2014-12-12T19:19:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:49:26","slug":"how-to-see-hidden-files-in-mac-os-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"See hidden files in Mac OS Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to see all the files in the project folder where I am working. So it is inconvenient not being able to see &#8220;.gitignore&#8221; and &#8220;.git&#8221; inside the folder where I have git repository. On a brief lookup of the internet I found <a title=\"Show hidden files (like htaccess) in Mac OS X\" href=\"http:\/\/www.turnwall.com\/articles\/show-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x\/\">this article<\/a> which proposes two approach of making hidden files visible in finder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Approach #1: Using Terminal<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To show hidden files<\/span><br \/>\ndefaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE<br \/>\nkillall Finder<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To turn off showing of hidden files<\/span><br \/>\ndefaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE<br \/>\nkillall Finder<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Approach #2: Using an App<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Funter\" href=\"http:\/\/nektony.com\/products\/funter\">Funter<\/a> is a small app which allows the user to toggle the hidden file visibility on and off at the click of a button which is quite convenient.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I used?<\/strong><br \/>\nI preferred the terminal approach as I am fairly comfortable with it and I didn&#8217;t want to add a new application into my mac&#8217;s start-up and menu bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to see all the files in the project folder where I am working. So it is inconvenient not being able to see &#8220;.gitignore&#8221; and &#8220;.git&#8221; inside the folder where I have git repository. On a brief lookup of the internet I found this article which proposes two approach of making hidden files visible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}