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Hide a file
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.
You can hide folders in the same way that you can hide files. Rename the folder with a "." at the beginning of its name.
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.
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 these files again, click ViewShow Hidden Files again.
Unhide a file
To unhide a file, go to the folder containing the hidden file and click ViewShow Hidden Files. Then, find the hidden file and rename it so that it doesn't have a "." in front of its name.
For example, to unhide a file called .example.txt, you would rename it to example.txt.
Once you have renamed the file, click ViewShow Hidden Files to hide any other hidden files again.