There are several ways to resolve this inevitable dilemma of invisible files.įor starters, you can still use XRay. The file is invisible - there's no icon to drag. Begin again by dragging the file's icon to the XRay icon and. Okay, now let's go in the reverse direction. The Finder will quit and relaunch and the file will vanish!
To relaunch the Finder, choose Force Quit from the Apple menu and select Finder in the resulting Force Quit Applications window. What's up? The Finder does not respond to the change until you relaunch the Finder (or log out and log back in). If you enable this option, and save the changes, the selected file is now. One of the options in the window is a check box to enable the file's invisible attribute. Drag any file or folder icon to the XRay application's icon and an XRay Info window for the item opens. An assortment of third party utilities provide the means to toggle the invisible bit. So, if you want to do this, you'll need some additional help.
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How to toggle the invisible bit A default installation of Mac OS X does not provide a way to toggle the invisible bit on and off. Thus, a file with its invisible bit set will be invisible in both OS 9 and OS X. This method is essentially the same one used to make files invisible in OS 9. When the bit is off, the item can be seen. When this bit is enabled, the item is invisible in the Finder. The following sections describe these criteria along the way, we also describe how to get any and all invisible files to appear on your desktop.Įvery file or folder on your Mac has a set of attributes (or "bits") that determine characteristics of the item. But it does have to meet one of the three criteria that the Finder checks in determining a file's status. In order for a file to be invisible in OS X, it does not have to drink a magic elixir. Ted has substantially revised it for Panther compatibility, based on his new Mac OS X troubleshooting book, Mac OS X Help Line. This tutorial by MacFixIt Contributing Editor Ted Landau was originally published on MacFixIt as a three-part series. In this tutorial article, we'll examine the methods OS X uses to makes files invisible, what and where the major invisible files are, how you can change an item's invisibility status, and how knowing all of this can help in troubleshooting. There are more invisible files in Mac OS X, more ways to make files invisible, and more ways to get in and out of trouble by accessing these files. Mac OS X expands the use of invisible files far beyond anything attempted by the Classic OS. One of the most well known examples of these transparent creatures are the old Classic Mac OS Desktop database files these are the ones that get rebuilt when you "rebuild the desktop" in OS 9. For example, Apple typically makes certain files invisible to reduce the chance that the files are unintentionally deleted or edited. Even though you can't see them, invisible files are critical to the operation of your Mac.
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