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Formerly invisible files now visible (e.g., DS_store). How to fix?
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I have a mb and somehow i changed some setting and on my desktop it has these wierd icons: .Localized and .DS_store
How do i get rid of them or hide them?
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These are normally hidden files. (Any file that begins with a "." in OS X is hidden by default.) Do you have some type of system-hack software (like Onyx, Deeper, Secrets, etc.) that is showing these hidden files on the desktop?
By the way, this thread should not be in the Notebook thread.
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The DS Store files are hidden files which include attributes information of the folders. I generally delete them (without any consequence), since I do not customize colors, backrgrounds or what not of the folders.
regards
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Originally Posted by tridentinecanon 
By the way, this thread should not be in the Notebook thread.
I've moved it to OS X and changed the thread title.
Lisa - did you use some third-party application to make these changes?
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i don't think i did, if so, i deleted it
i tried that link, it didn't work
(Last edited by lisa_is_not_mac; Mar 28, 2008 at 02:54 PM.
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Download TinkerTool and use it to toggle the Finder preference to show hidden files
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