ShowHiddenFiles
(Free)
Show invisible files (was ChangeVisibility).
Show Hidden Files for Mac is available as freeware with advertisements for other programs displayed initially, but these can be disabled or enabled easily from the main drop down menu. Easy to download, the application installs and runs quickly. Its interface is simple, with buttons to hide and show files, although some advanced features could be less intuitive to the average Mac user.
The largest buttons, as would be appropriate, are for showing or hiding major hidden files. You can also specifically designate additional folders to hide or display as needed. Instructions are not available and would be helpful for the program's more-advanced features, as would product support, which is not apparent. Typically, Mac users need to use the terminal to hide or show certain files, which may be a hindrance to some people, making this program helpful. Professionals may find the steps of loading the application just as cumbersome, if not more so, than the terminal commands, rendering the program less useful. There are no additional features, but since this software is available as freeware and marketed only for a limited purpose, this is not unexpected.
While free, Show Hidden Files for Mac is of limited utility to advanced users of the Mac terminal, but would be helpful for someone with little knowledge of manually showing hidden files.
NEW FEATURE
We are building other useful tools into this application. The New tool we have added allows you to quickly rebuild the spotlight index of a selected volume. Why would you want to do this? If spotlight is having problems indexing a certain drive, rebuilding often helps. Another situation: Suppose you have a thumb drive that you plug into multiple time machine backed up computers, and you want to have this thumb drive be backed up on both machines. The way Time Machine works is that it uses the spotlight index to determine which files to back up. If you change files on one computer, and then plug your
USB drive into your other computer, those changes will not be backed up on the second computer! Why? Because the second comptuer is not "aware" that the files have changed. (An exception to this if you have created new files... any newly created files will be backed up). By re-indexing spotlight for the attached volume, you will effectively inform Time Machine of all the new files that need to be backed up.
We are building other useful tools into this application. The New tool we have added allows you to quickly rebuild the spotlight index of a selected volume. Why would you want to do this? If spotlight is having problems indexing a certain drive, rebuilding often helps. Another situation: Suppose you have a thumb drive that you plug into multiple time machine backed up computers, and you want to have this thumb drive be backed up on both machines. The way Time Machine works is that it uses the spotlight index to determine which files to back up. If you change files on one computer, and then plug your
USB drive into your other computer, those changes will not be backed up on the second computer! Why? Because the second comptuer is not "aware" that the files have changed. (An exception to this if you have created new files... any newly created files will be backed up). By re-indexing spotlight for the attached volume, you will effectively inform Time Machine of all the new files that need to be backed up.
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