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Old 07-21-2005
I revealed hidden files, now i want to hide em again

I did a reveal hidden files in Terminal trying to get songs from my ipod. now i would like to turn that off and again hide the hidden files?????Help will be greatly appreciated



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Eric
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Old 07-22-2005
Perform a move of the files, rename them prefixing them with a "." (period). Files prefixed with a "." are hidden.
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Old 07-22-2005
Did you rename the files to make the visible, or are you doing an "ls -a" to show all files?
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Old 07-26-2005
I did a show all hidden files command.
 
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