{"id":69,"date":"2008-01-02T23:48:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T06:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-01-02T23:48:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T06:48:28","slug":"how-to-show-all-hidden-files-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/how-to-show-all-hidden-files-on-a-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to show all hidden files on a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty easy to do.<\/p>\n<p>Open up Terminal (Applications>Utilities Folder>Terminal)<\/p>\n<p>Type the following at the prompt (hit your ENTER\/RETURN key after each line):<\/p>\n<p><em>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE<\/p>\n<p>killall Finder<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now you can see all the hidden files.  I suggest you close Terminal while you work with the hidden files so you don&#8217;t type anything in Terminal by accident while working.<\/p>\n<p>To hide all hidden files again, in Terminal (see above to open Terminal), type the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE<\/p>\n<p>killall Finder<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Close Terminal<\/p>\n<p>Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty easy to do. Open up Terminal (Applications>Utilities Folder>Terminal) Type the following at the prompt (hit your ENTER\/RETURN key after each line): defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder Now you can see all the hidden files. I suggest you close Terminal while you work with the hidden files so you don&#8217;t type anything in Terminal by accident while working. To hide all hidden files again, in Terminal (see above to open Terminal), type the following: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE killall Finder Close Terminal Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-stuff","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}