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<link type="guide" xref="files#faq"/>
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<desc>Make a file invisible, so you can't see it in the file manager.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="review"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.6.0" version="0.2" date="2012-09-29" status="review"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Phil Bull</name>
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<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
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<credit type="editor">
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<name>Michael Hill</name>
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<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
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<section id="show-hidden">
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<title>Show all hidden files</title>
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<p>If you want to see all hidden files in a folder, go to that folder and
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either click <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq> or
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press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>H</key></keyseq>. You will see all hidden
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files, along with regular files that are not hidden.</p>
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either click the <media type="image" src="figures/go-down.png">down</media>
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button in the toolbar and pick <gui>Show Hidden Files</gui>, or press
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>H</key></keyseq>. You will see all hidden files,
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along with regular files that are not hidden.</p>
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<p>To hide these files again, either click <guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>
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Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq> or press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>H</key>
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<p>To hide these files again, either click the
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<media type="image" src="figures/go-down.png">down</media> button in the
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toolbar and pick <gui>Show Hidden Files</gui>, or press
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>H</key></keyseq> again.</p>
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<section id="unhide">
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<title>Unhide a file</title>
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<p>To unhide a file, go to the folder containing the hidden file and click
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<guiseq><gui>View</gui><gui>Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq>. Then, find the
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hidden file and rename it so that it doesn't have a <key>.</key> in front of
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its name. For example, to unhide a file called <file>.example.txt</file>, you should
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rename it to <file>example.txt</file>.</p>
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the <media type="image" src="figures/go-down.png">down</media> button in the
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toolbar and pick <gui>Show Hidden Files</gui>. Then, find the hidden file and
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rename it so that it doesn't have a <key>.</key> in front of its name. For
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example, to unhide a file called <file>.example.txt</file>, you should rename
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it to <file>example.txt</file>.</p>
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<p>Once you have renamed the file, you can either click <guiseq><gui>View
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</gui><gui>Show Hidden Files</gui></guiseq> or press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key>
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<key>H</key></keyseq> to hide any other hidden files again.</p>
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<p>Once you have renamed the file, you can either click the
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<media type="image" src="figures/go-down.png">down</media> button
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in the toolbar and pick <gui>Show Hidden Files</gui>, or press
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<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>H</key></keyseq> to hide any other hidden files
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manager until you close the file manager. To change this setting so that the
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