Hide your personal files/folders from others (Mac Users)

Did you ever feel like hiding your personal files or folders from your friends or others atleast in  one or other situation!!. I would say 95% of the users say yes and here is the answer..

There are lot of softwares/ tools on the internet that will hide/unhide your files. But there may not be a possibility to have a software in your system every time. So lets see the unique way to hide your files/folders.

Step 1: Open your terminal from the applications folder or from the Launch.

Step 2: Browse to the location where your file/folder is present on the local drive. You can use different command prompt commands like "cd"(change directory) , cd.. and so on to reach your final destination.

Step 3: Use this command to hide your files

mv [file or folder name] .[file or folder name] without the square [] brackets

eg: mv blog.doc .blog.doc

                 or 

      mv Folder/ .Folder/

To unhide the file/folder you have hidden

All the above steps are same.

In Step 3 instead of the above command use this

mv .[file or folder name] [file or folder name] without the square [] brackets

The basic mechanism thats happening here is that it renames the file appending a  dot (.) at the beginning of the file name which makes the file to be hidden. Removing the dot unhides the file.

Locating your file in Library/System will increase the hiding capacity of the file.

You are done!! you files can be hidden just in a second without any software.. 

Windows users!! don't worry here is the post for you to hide/unhide files/folders in Windows..