[damiensmunki]

Hi! I'll be switching from a PC to a Mac in about a month. My Windows notebook computer has just died, but I had everything backed up on CD. I'll be putting all of my files on my new Mac, but some of them were hidden files on Windows. How will OS X handle these files? Anyone know? Thanks!

[rphtechnology]

Originally posted by damiensmunki:
Hi! I'll be switching from a PC to a Mac in about a month. My Windows notebook computer has just died, but I had everything backed up on CD. I'll be putting all of my files on my new Mac, but some of them were hidden files on Windows. How will OS X handle these files? Anyone know? Thanks!

The files *should* show up just fine. I do not believe that OS X abides by the same file system rules which XP uses.

[SupahCoolX]

I'm pretty sure that invisible files on a Mac start with a period (such as ".whatever"). So, all those files will likely be visible unless they happen to begin with a .

[Developer]

Originally posted by SupahCoolX:
I'm pretty sure that invisible files on a Mac start with a period (such as ".whatever"). So, all those files will likely be visible unless they happen to begin with a .

Files that start with a dot. And files with the invisible flag set. And then there's the hidden file ".hidden" which lists files at the root of the hard disk that should be hidden but don't start with a dot.