How to hide/deal with dotted (.) folders in windows?
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Mar 15, 2026566 viewsConfidence Score0%
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There are a lot of applications that uses the dot notation + application name to store it's data. This is common on *NIX systems but it's not recommended by FreeDesktopStandards, in fact they should use the variable, which usually is mapped to directory. For instance is very common for an applicati…
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You can set the files as hidden by opening the command prompt and running: This will look for any files and folders in beginning with a period and mark them with the hidden attribute. You can make this recuresive (i.e. it will search sub folders) by…
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