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How to hide files from Windows...on Mac OS X?

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Mar 15, 20261665 views

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I have created a FAT disk image using Disk Utility and added files to it. I would like to hide some of these files from Windows. Is there a way to do this from OS X? What I'm looking for is basically a Mac equivalent of attrib: a tool to set the Windows hidden attribute. Note that SetFile will NOT …

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Some implementations allow the changing of MS-DOS permissions. EDIT: You can use DOSBOX to mount a volume in OS X to a directory, which may allow you to use the attrib command. EDIT2: The Tcl 'file' command might work from the command-line too.

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