Hidden Files

An Alfred Workflow


Short Description

This wokflow shows or hides hidden files in Finder

Last Updated

21 Jan 2014

Compatibility

Yosemite
(10.10)
Mavericks
(10.9)
Mountain Lion
(10.8)
Lion
(10.7)
Snow Leopard
(10.6)
No Yes Yes Yes No
 

Version

1.0
 

Bundle ID

com.andyryan.hiddenfiles
 

Author

SHOW OR HIDE HIDDEN FILES IN FINDER

This little workflow simply runs the following commands inside terminal to show or hide hidden files in Finder:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true or defaults delete com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles

EXECUTING THE WORKFLOW

To Show Hidden Files in Finder, press the {hot key} and type in the keyword 'show f'

To Hide Hidden Files in Finder, press the {hot key} and type in the keyword 'hide f'

I found it useful, I hope you do to. One thing to note, I am running the “exit 0” command in my script in order to exit gracefully. I’ve found that if you set the terminal settings to “Close if the shell exited cleanly” it works very nicely.

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