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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="topic" id="files-hidden">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="files-arrange"/>
<desc>Make a file invisible, so you can't see it in the file browser.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="1.0" date="2010-07-25" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Phil Bull</name>
<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
</info>
<title>Hide a file</title>
<p>You can hide files by renaming them with a <key>.</key> 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.</p>
<p>To hide a file, <link xref="files-renaming">rename it</link> with a "." at the beginning of its name. For example, to hide a file <file>example.txt</file>, you would rename it to <file>.example.txt</file>.</p>
<note style="tip">
<p>You can hide folders in the same way that you can hide files. Rename the folder with a "." at the beginning of its name.</p>
</note>
<section>
<title>Show all hidden files</title>
<p>
If you want to see all of the hidden files in a folder, go to that folder and click <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq>. All of the hidden files will be shown along with the files that were not hidden.
</p>
<p>
Some hidden files will have a "." at the beginning of their name. Others might have a "~" at the end of their name instead (see <link xref="files-tilde"/>).
</p>
<p>
To hide these files again, click <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq> again.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Unhide a file</title>
<p>
To unhide a file, go to the folder containing the hidden file and click <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq>. Then, find the hidden file and rename it so that it doesn't have a "." in front of its name.
</p>
<p>
For example, to unhide a file called <file>.example.txt</file>, you would rename it to <file>example.txt</file>.
</p>
<p>
Once you have renamed the file, click <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq> to hide any other hidden files again.
</p>
</section>
</page>
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