How To Access Icloud Music On Mac

hello welcomed today's video one showinghidden files in folders on your mac you mac has a variety of hidden files and folders they are normally hidden from view so they can't be changed. it files and folders can be created by adding a dot at the beginning of them on using the chflags command in terminal

How To Access Icloud Music On Mac, than many reasons why you do this, most notably if you use a .htaccess file alter services on websites for example if you want to see all of the hidden files and for all this hecan do this with a simple to command

to show your hidden files we're gonnause terminal open the applications folder select theutilities folder and then select teminal now we're going to do is going to writea terminal command that will edit the preference for finder this is done by defaults write com.apple.finder this is the preference for finder appleshow

allfiles true this has got to be capitalised correctly the command is written in the comments the true command at the end that will set it to true the preference has been changed, but finder doesn't realise this it hasn't loaded the preference so i am going to write kill all finder this will restart finder

you'll notice now my desktop previously hidden files starting with a dot. the best way to get to macintosh h_d_see all these greyed out hidden files a lot of these like private, sbin user var all system files that shouldn't be changed now if you want to hide the files againto simply matter of changing this true command to false

now to save yourself time by writing our the command again press the up arrow twice to get back to the previous command change true to false once again you write killall finder and files are gone, it's as simple as that here is a neat little trick if you want to see hidden files and folders when you are saving something i have opened textedit and in the save as dialog box if i hit the command + shift + .

it will switch between a normal view and a hidden files and folders view its a quick way of viewing hidden files and folders and saving anything into them now to go back to your normal view you press the same keyboard command again you can switch between the two showing hidden files and folders is just the case of known the right command this sort of trick has many uses thank you for watching if you have enjoyed this video please subscribe

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