{"id":1479,"date":"2012-11-03T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2012-11-03T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T22:48:32","slug":"make-a-file-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"Make a file invisible."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Unix-like systems (e.g. Linux and OSX) you can make a file invisible with the following command:<br \/>\n<code class=\"preserve-code-formatting\">setFile -a V \/Users\/userid\/Desktop\/untitled\\ folder <\/code><\/p>\n<p>To make it visible again, just change the V to a lower case v.<br \/>\n<code class=\"preserve-code-formatting\">setFile -a v \/Users\/userid\/Desktop\/untitled\\ folder <\/code><\/p>\n<p>In this example, from OSX, I typed setFile -a V and then dragged a folder from the desktop to the command line. userid is really my userid. Unless you changed it, it is the same as your command prompt i.e userid$. It\u2019s a bit harder to make a file visible, since you can\u2019t drag it in from the finder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Unix-like systems (e.g. Linux and OSX) you can make a file invisible with the following command: setFile -a V \/Users\/userid\/Desktop\/untitled\\ folder To make it visible again, just change the V to a lower case v. setFile -a v \/Users\/userid\/Desktop\/untitled\\ folder In this example, from OSX, I typed setFile -a V and then dragged a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/?p=1479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make a file invisible.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}