Last night i was working with SVN and need to delete .svn files in a particular directory hierarchy; I couldn't find a direct way to do this so i moved to terminal and achieved this; So hows it go; Launch the Terminal and enter these commands exactly as shown. The first command activates the ability to see the hidden files: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE Now you must relaunch the Finder by killing it, this is how the changes take effect: killall Finder Thats it; free counters