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Hide a folder
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 1:04 am
by shawnblc
Is there a way to hide a folder? Neither of the below are working.
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set the vis of folder "/path to folder/" to false
or
Re: Hide a folder
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 1:09 am
by Simon
Hi shawn,
On Windows you'd shell("attrib +h fullPathToFolder")
might have to add +s not sure.
Simon
Re: Hide a folder
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 1:18 am
by charms
On Linux and MacOS the equivalent would be to set a dot in front of the folder. You could just move the directory from it's original filename to ".yourfolder".
shell("mv yourfolder .yourfolder")
Re: Hide a folder
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 1:28 am
by shawnblc
I'm on RMBP running 10.9.3 w/ VM Ware running Win 7 Ultimate, but I was more thinking of OSX for this.
Re: Hide a folder
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 5:50 am
by jacque
charms wrote:On Linux and MacOS the equivalent would be to set a dot in front of the folder. You could just move the directory from it's original filename to ".yourfolder".
shell("mv yourfolder .yourfolder")
Or even easier, just use the" rename "command.