Phil Bullphilbull@gmail.comMichael Hillmdhillca@gmail.comDavid Kingamigadave@amigadave.comMake a file invisible, so you cannot see it in the file
manager.Hide a file
The Files file manager gives you the ability to hide and unhide
files at your discretion. When a file is hidden, it is not displayed by the
file manager, but it is still there in its folder.
To hide a file, rename it with a
. at the beginning of its name. For example, to hide a file
named example.txt, you should rename it to
.example.txt.
You can hide folders in the same way that you can hide files. Hide a
folder by placing a . at the beginning of the folder’s name.
Show all hidden files
If you want to see all hidden files in a folder, go to that folder and
either press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select Show Hidden Files, or press
CtrlH. You will see all hidden files,
along with regular files that are not hidden.
To hide these files again, either click the
either press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and switch off Show Hidden Files, or press
CtrlH again.
Unhide a file
To unhide a file, go to the folder containing the hidden file. Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select Show Hidden Files, or press
CtrlH.
Then, find the hidden file and rename it so that it does not have a
. in front of its name. For example, to unhide a file called
.example.txt, you should rename it to
example.txt.
Once you have renamed the file, you can either press the menu button in
the top-right corner of the window and switch off Show Hidden Files, or
press CtrlH to hide any other hidden
files again.
By default, you will only see hidden files in the file
manager until you close the file manager. To change this setting so that the
file manager will always show hidden files, see
.
Most hidden files will have a . at the
beginning of their name, but others might have a ~ at the end of
their name instead. These files are backup files. See
for more information.