Unhide folders in Mountain Lion

Solution Although this article was originally written for OS X Lion, the command has been tested and proved to work in Mountain Lion as well

So here’s my first of what will soon be many OS X terminal commands to do what the third party apps do, without the bloat/overhead.

To enable hidden files/folders in finder windows:
1.Open Finder
2.Open the Utilities folder
3.Open a terminal window
4.Copy and paste the following line in:

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defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

5.Press return
6.Now hold ‘alt’ on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon
7.Click on Relaunch

You should find you will now be able to see any hidden files or folders. One you are done, perform the steps above however, replace the terminal command in step 4 with:

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defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

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Article ID:	111
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Date added:	2012-09-02 01:12:41
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