[OS X TeX] making invisible files visible

[Michael S. Hanson]

On Jan 16, 2005, at 11:23 PM, Bob Kerstetter wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Rene Borgella wrote:
>
>> a good utility to do this if you need to see what's on your mac (and 
>> you aren't or rather not use terminal) is "tinkertool".
>
> You can do this in the terminal with:
>
> defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles ON
> to make invisible files and directories  visible.
>
> defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles OFF
> to make things invisible again

	Or, if you have the Developer Tools installed (an optional install, 
IIRC), you could use the 'SetFile' command to individually change the 
visibility of a file or set of files.  The program 'FileBuddy' (also 
available from VersionTracker, but not freeware like TinkerTool) can 
set this characteristic as well.  HTH.

                                         -- Mike

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