Guest mandrake123 Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 How do i change the attributes of a hidden folder so it is no longer hidden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 why is it hidden? if you can't see it is it because you don't have access rights? Generally when I don't have access rights I can still see the folder, but can't go into it. What file system are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 On Unix (hence on Linux), the "hidden" property of a file is not stored on the filesystem. By common usage, a file or directory is said, and expected, to be hidden if its name begins with a dot (.mozilla/, .bashrc, .armagetronrc). That's very convenient because the rule is very simple. On the other hand, it is problematic, because if you want a visible folder to become hidden (or the other way around), you have to simply add a dot: folder becomes .folder BUT if you really do so, the application looking for folder will not find it because folder does not exist anymore! Luckily, many applications can be configured so that you can change the name of the file/directory to look for, but some can't. Eg: you won't ever be able to change nsmail to .nsmail (Netscape mail), or (worse...) Nautilus to .Nautilus AFAIK. If this does not answer your question, then indeed your problem is not a "hidden-property" problem, but rather a access-right problem. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mandrake123 Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 I was asking because sometimes i login as root to make make changes to my .wine directory. Sometimes i go in there to add some dll's to the fake windows system directory. The .wine folder is hidden but i like to not show hidden folders because there are so many and it gets a little cluttered. What if i make a link to that .wine folder and name the link 'wine folder' or something like that. Will the link be hidden since the folder it points to is hidden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 that would work. it wont be hidden because its first character is not a period. changes to the file structure contained in it will also reflect on the ~/.wine directory since they point to the same thing. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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