[Webscreamer]

How can you make for example a JPG or PDF file invisable in OSX?

I wanna know this so I can make a DMG and have a background image, but I don't want to me able to see the image file with it.

Thanks!

[pat++]

Originally posted by Webscreamer:
How can you make for example a JPG or PDF file invisable in OSX?

I wanna know this so I can make a DMG and have a background image, but I don't want to me able to see the image file with it.

Thanks!

You can rename the image and put a dot '.' character at the very begining of the name. Or you can set the 'Invisible' attribute with :

/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V <filename>

where <filename> is the name of your image on the dmg (you can drag&drop the file to get the full pathname). SetFile part of the developer tools.

[Millennium]

There are three ways to do this.

The first, and easiest, is to put a dot at the beginning of a filename. It's a very old Unix convention to make such files invisible, and OSX follows that convention.

The second way, as pat++ said, is to use the SetFile tool. This only works if you have the Developer Tools installed, however.

The third way is to create a file called ".hidden" in the same folder as the image, and put the image's name into the file. Note that .hidden will itself be invisible, because of the dot at the start of the filename.

[Webscreamer]

awsome!

thanks. Along the same lines. how do you make the DMG have an Agreement when u mount it like Apple stuff has?

[Webscreamer]

it won't let me put a "." in front of files or folder because it is "Reserved for system files" it says.

hmmmmmmmm....

[dtriska]

You have to use Terminal. Open Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities/) and change to the directory the image file is in by typing:

cd <directory>

You can simply drag-and-drop the directory/folder onto the Terminal window instead of typing its location.

After that, type:

mv image.jpg .image.jpg

"mv" means move; "image.jpg" is the current name of the image file; and, ".image.jpg" is the new name with a period in front.