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Is it possible to toggle hidden files without relaunching Finder?
Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20261521 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
There are several ways how to toggle hidden files - via a shell command, or AppleScript, or Automator action, or even a Dashboard widget. All of them close and reopen Finder windows, which is quite annoying. On the other hand, for the Open File dialog one can easily toggle hidden files by pressing …
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Fix for: Is it possible to toggle hidden files without relaunching Finder?
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There is a solution now. The latest release of TotalFinder (0.9.1) can toggle show/hide hidden files without Finder restart. Tested it, it works well, and removes this long-lived annoyance of the Finder. TotalFinder is free for now as it is prerelea…
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