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Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Nanusja — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:55:56 -0000

Thanks a lot!! It really helped!!

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:21:41 -0000

Glad my tutorial helped out :o) Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:21:10 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to comment, and for your suggestions. :o)

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:19:32 -0000

Glad my tutorial helped out :o)

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Cartoonist Miller — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:27:38 -0000

Oh my gosh thanks Mike, that was very helpful. I have a 16 GB flash drive and I could never get stuff on there. Turns out the flash drive actually keeps the items it had before. I went into trashes and then got rid of 503 and 505. I now have 15.987 GB!

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

J Dr — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:37:31 -0000

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder

will do the job. if you have trouble, you should copy paste the whole line only until TRUE and then type killall Finder by hand.

and then to reverse:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

hit enter and then type:

killall Finder

hit enter and magic done.

ps. I post that because YES or NO commands didn't work for me

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Raam Dev — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:02:13 -0000

Thank you, Mike! Very helpful. :)

Re: Disable OS X Dashboard

Mike Hudson — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:59:11 -0000

Hi Brendan, it's very unlikely to have been caused by CleanMyMac. I have used it for years now on many OS X devices and never had any problems. Maybe next time it happens, book back up open console from the Utilities folder, and post the last few lines from the console window. That should tell you what happened pre it's kernel panic.

Thanks
Mike

Re: Disable OS X Dashboard

Brendan — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:17:44 -0000

I bought a 27" iMac with Lion in Feb and have had mixed problems since the beginning - relatively small, but irritating. I've resolved most of them and know a LOT more about the computer than I ever thoguht I would. Has kind of soured me on Apple quality though and am having a hard time persuading myself to accept the changes in Lion, but that's a different issue. Yesterday, for the first time, right in the middle of working, the screen went totally black-not a hint of grey or color anywhere. PANIC! Finally figured out that I needed to do a hard reboot and have learned more in the three times more that it's crashed in the past 8 hours. Only difference is that I purchased and used Clean My Mac - could that be the issue? I save and back up my work consistently and with multiple formats, so I'm not (too) worried about losing work, but it's a real bother to get paralyzed like that. Any more ideas? Thanks.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:55:45 -0000

Yeah I've tried that. I prefer CleanMyMac. Much easier interface.

Upgrades between OS versions are always best doing from fresh installs in my opinion. :o)

Stick with it, Lion will earn its right to your disk space :)

Like you say. There's plenty of people like us out there willing to help.

Cheers
Mike

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Cary_Wolfson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:47:25 -0000

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. I was using something called MacKeeper. "Upgrading" to Lion last week hosed so many things I was running under 10.6.8. It seems like I've done nothing but put out fires since I made the change. Feels like my head is about to split open. Glad there are people like you willing to help out.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:38:32 -0000

Hehe, well on my mac it's labelled as Alt :P

Thanks for the link, I am not a massive fan of tweak apps, but if you prefer that..

Have you tried something like CleanMyMac http://www.mikesel.info/cleanm... Should find and clean up any application left overs.

Thanks

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Cary_Wolfson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:34:12 -0000

Thanks for the quick response, Mike.

OK. In my world we call that the Option key, but whatever.;-}>

In the meantime, I've found a freeware app, Lion Tweaks, that avoids all the command line stuff. Check it out here: http://ifredrik.com/applicatio...

Even so, I still have not been able to find that "ProTecb" file. No idea what it is or is supposed to do. Must be a dreg left over from an anti-virus program or something.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:52:40 -0000

Hi Cary

I'm in the process of making a video to make this easier, however in the mean time...

The alt key is the one that looks like the attached, and finder is the two faces in your dock (see attached)

Once you've done that, you should find you can see the files your after

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Cary_Wolfson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:44:01 -0000

I feel like I'm missing something here. After pasting the command into Terminal, why the reference to the "alt" key, which doesn't exist on a Mac? Where is the Finder icon I'm supposed to click on?

OK, what I'm trying to do: on startup I get the message that the file Library/StartupItems/ProTecb cannot launch. No idea what that is, but I want to trash it. However, I don't see any files in the StartupItems folder, and it doesn't show up in a Spotlight search, so figure it must be invisible.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:20 -0000

Hello Jim - you might want to try David Scharf's link in the below comment: http://filetoggle.huesforalice... this should do it for you.

Thanks
Mike

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

jimhales — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:25:23 -0000

here is what I get when I try and unhide hidden files to find malware applications running on my iMac. can't seem to access files containing adware releventknowledge.ba or bearsharemanagerfree.exe
Last login: Sun Apr 22 07:47:26 on ttys000cpe001f5be74ccb-cm001bd7a6efae:~ jimhaleschuk$ bashbash-3.2$ defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YESbash-3.2$ bash-3.2$ defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YESbash-3.2$ bash-3.2$ com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YESbash: com.apple.Finder: command not foundbash-3.2$
Can anyone help me with this. Email me at jshales@rogers .com, then I can for sure get the info i need

Re: Disable spotlight indexing – OS X Lion

Mike Hudson — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:14:45 -0000

I'd be surprised it the spotlight indexing was to blame. Have you tried cleaning your mac with one of the numerous software products?

Maybe ZeoBits MacKeeper
http://www.mikesel.info/ultima...

Or CleanMyMac
http://www.mikesel.info/cleanm...

Obviously the best method would be a complete backup and fresh install of Lion..

Let me know how you get on

Thanks
Mike

Re: Disable spotlight indexing – OS X Lion

Jerry — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:45:06 -0000

Helpful, I disabled my indexing, hoping for faster boot up as with lion it became incredibly slow. Although I am not sure if that's right thing to do.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Shaurjya Banerjee — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:52:31 -0000

Thanks so much for your help mate :D
Cheers.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Mike Hudson — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:28:53 -0000

You may want to wrap the path in ' symbols, the error message I got when I tried your terminal command was splitting the path due to the space.

So try:

sudo chflags nohidden '/Users/Shaurjya/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music'

Thanks

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Shaurjya Banerjee — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:05:27 -0000

Hi Mike, I'm sorry to say my terminal returns "No such file or directory" I copied the hidden files out from my iPod (I needed to get music from my iPod onto my computer). The command I entered was-

chflags nohidden /Users/Shaurjya/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music

that IS the path that contains the hidden files, but i can't seem to get Terminal to make them visible permanently. Cos iTunes won't see it otherwise.

Thanks for the help.
Cheers.

Re: Disable spotlight indexing – OS X Lion

Laraine Barker — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:50:30 -0000

I don't remember it being this much of a kerfuffle on my G5, which got bogged down far too long to make Spotlight worth bothering with. I seem to remember I used system preferences to stop indexing; far more Mac-like that using the nerdy Terminal.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Srin D — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:22:41 -0000

I realize this is six months old. But in case someone else is reading this...the Mobile Sync Folder is where your iphone and ipad back ups are stored

Re: Send SMS Messages from your Mac using your iPhone

Nikolas Katigbak — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:50:58 -0000

but this is only for sending to other users with iMessage as well