Hidden files in Mac OS X (was: Mac Mini)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

There is a preference setting to show ALL files and folders in ALL
windows, including things like .bashrc, but it uglifies things so badly
and is such a PITA that, believe me, I'm doing you a favor by not telling
you how to enable it.

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:52:38 -0600, RON FLORY wrote:

> Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:
>> On 1/19/05 1:02 PM, "Thierry de Coulon" <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
>>>(I want to install it as an "iMovie Machine"
>> I just want to try to be nice and warn you that digital video footage eats
>> hard drive space, so, depending on how much you'll be using it, I'd give OS
>> X as much space as possible when you partition it.
> 
>   This is WAY, WAY off-topic, but I have a simple question.  I'm a Linux user
> who is still trying to figure out the quirks of OSX.
> 
>   I created a /opt directory to place scratch files into, but the OSX GUI will
> not display this directory in any file dialog.
> 
>   I discovered with OSX 10.2.x that renaming /opt to /Opt magically allowed
> /Opt to be displayed in the GUI file dialogs.
> 
>   Now with OSX 10.3 even this does not work.
> 
>   Is there a magic trick under OSX 10.3 to allow any/all directories on
> the internal system drive to be seen in GUI file dialogs?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ron
> 
> 
> 
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