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Diptansu
October 25th, 2008, 05:04 AM
Recently i hv started download through 'amule'. To find where it put the downloaded file i had to click "view > Show Hidden Files" . Then a lots of folders showed. So these folders were hidden by default !!

How can i hide a folder myself? I didnt find any option in there ...

doas777
October 25th, 2008, 05:05 AM
just put a '.' at the beginning of the file name. that'll hide it.

LaRoza
October 25th, 2008, 05:17 AM
Ctrl + h in most file managers will toggle between showing and hiding.

There is no special hidden attribute, just the . in front of the name. ("ls -a" will show them in the terminal as well)

barbedsaber
October 25th, 2008, 06:13 AM
afaik, you can put a tilda (~) at the end of a file name to hide it as well.

schauerlich
October 25th, 2008, 06:51 AM
afaik, you can put a tilda (~) at the end of a file name to hide it as well.

Doesn't work here. I've never seen that before.

Canis familiaris
October 25th, 2008, 09:05 AM
Doesn't work here. I've never seen that before.

It works with Nautilus, Thunar; doesn't with Konqueror.

schauerlich
October 25th, 2008, 05:45 PM
It works with Nautilus, Thunar; doesn't with Konqueror.

Oh, right. I was doing it from the terminal.

Diptansu
October 26th, 2008, 06:23 PM
Thanks to all of u guys ... :)

Putting '.' as prefix and 'ctrl-h' really worked well ... :)

Thanks to all again ...