[AlanMitchell]

Was doing a little harddisk housecleaning and was moving some folders around. Suddenly my folder of movies and pictures (Titled: ".Movies" and ".Pix") has become invisible. They're still there... the Find function finds them as invisible folders. So how did that happen? Anything to do with a period being the first character? And how do I change 'em back to visible?

Running Panther 10.3.1 on a TiBook. Thanks for any and all help!

[Developer]

Yes, that has everything to do with the dot. Every file/folder that starts with a dot is invisible on Unix. That's why the Finder doesn't let you change it to such a filename.

To make the folders visible again you remove the dot from the beginning of their name.