{"id":2556,"date":"2011-05-29T20:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:26:56","slug":"show-hidden-files-on-your-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/show-hidden-files-on-your-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Hidden Files on your Mac;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night i was working with SVN and need to delete .svn files in a particular directory hierarchy;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.winzip.com\/mac\/en\/images\/mac-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a direct way to do this so i moved to terminal and achieved this;<\/p>\n<p>So hows it go;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Launch the Terminal and enter these commands exactly as shown. The first command activates the ability to see the hidden files:<\/p>\n<p><strong>defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now you must relaunch the Finder by killing it, this is how the changes take effect:<\/p>\n<p><strong>killall Finder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thats it;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s09.flagcounter.com\/count\/jog\/bg_FFFFFF\/txt_000000\/border_FFFFFF\/columns_6\/maxflags_248\/viewers_0\/labels_1\/pageviews_1\/\" alt=\"free counters\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night i was working with SVN and need to delete .svn files in a particular directory hierarchy; I couldn&#8217;t find a direct way to do this so i moved to terminal and achieved this; So hows it go;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[481,482,511,633,703,704,705,933,1062],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-hidden-files-in-mac","tag-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x","tag-how-to-show-hidden-files-in-mac","tag-killall-finder","tag-mac-finder-hidden-files","tag-mac-hidden-files","tag-mac-os","tag-show-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x","tag-viewing-hidden-files-on-a-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}