From 8431e4b738dd031f9354f4c5b6ae76c8c80fcd71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tiffany Antopolski Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:02:30 -0400 Subject: [g-h]files: hidden and tilde... cleaned up a bit. --- gnome-help/C/files-hidden.page | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnome-help/C/files-hidden.page') diff --git a/gnome-help/C/files-hidden.page b/gnome-help/C/files-hidden.page index 007ba44..95ad34e 100644 --- a/gnome-help/C/files-hidden.page +++ b/gnome-help/C/files-hidden.page @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Make a file invisible, so you can't see it in the file browser. - + Phil Bull philbull@gmail.com @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ -Hide a file +Hide a File -

You can hide files by renaming them in a special way. Hidden files are just invisible; they are not displayed in the file browser, but they are still there in the folder.

+

You can hide files by renaming them with a . at the beginning of their name. Hidden files are invisible by default; they are not displayed in the file browser, but they are still there in the folder.

To hide a file, rename it with a "." at the beginning of its name. For example, to hide a file example.txt, you would rename it to .example.txt.

@@ -27,15 +27,15 @@
- Show all hidden files + Show All Hidden Files

If you want to see all of the hidden files in a folder, go to that folder and click ViewShow Hidden Files. All of the hidden files will be shown along with the files that were not hidden.

- The hidden files will have a "." at the beginning of their name. Some might have a "~" at the end of their name instead (see ). + Some hidden files will have a "." at the beginning of their name. Others might have a "~" at the end of their name instead (see ).

- To hide the files again, click ViewShow Hidden Files again. + To hide these files again, click ViewShow Hidden Files again.

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