[Ham-Mac] ResEdit; making invis. files visible

[Philip]

At some time fairly close to Sat, 20 Dec 2003 13:32:43 -0500,
rumor has it that Don wrote:

> > At 6:33 PM -0500 12/18/03, Chris Smolinski wrote:
> >> Resorcerer has an OSX version I believe. ResEdit runs in Classic.
> >
> > Would either of these app's, or another app. that you (or anyone
> > else on this excellent list) recommend(s), be good for (1) _finding_
> > invisible files and/or folders on my disk, and then (2) making them 
> > visible?

> Under OS X the find command (<command> F) will find invisible files
> for you.
> (Use the "+" sign to add a criteria where the "Visibility" criteria is
> chosen and set to "invisible items")
> You can then delete the leading "." to make it visible.

Be aware that if you make _all_ the invisible files visible the
unix-side of OSX will likely mis-behave greatly 'cause many of the
programs are looking for a particular filename and so if you change it
from ".bashrc" to "bashrc" things won't work as expected.

If it is just some user files and not system, config, or preference
files you should be fine. :)


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                Philip
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