Doing this exposes your MAC address and in turn can be used to identify your computer and the user. You can change your MAC address by Technitium MAC Address Changer. You should keep in mind that changing your MAC address is by no means enough to make you completely anonymous. Check out the tools section for tips on how to do this. Sometimes you may want to hide certain apps in macOS without actually uninstalling them. This may be because you still want access to the apps in the future, or because you don’t want users of the Mac to launch the app via Finder, or even when dealing with built-in Apple apps which aren’t always a good idea to remove. Open Terminal from Applications Utilities and navigate to the directory in which you’d like to create your hidden folder. This can be accomplished by using the change directory, or “cd,” command. In our example, we want to create a hidden folder on the Desktop. Terminal by default starts off in the top-level user folder.
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Warning: In many cases, programmers make filesinvisible on purpose. If you modify or move an invisible file, theprogram that uses it may not run properly.
You can use the following applications to locate, and in some casesmodify, invisible files in Mac OS:
Find File utility and Sherlock
The Find File utility (Mac OS 7.5 through 8.1) and Sherlock(Mac OS 8.5 through 9.x) can locate invisible files, but cannot modifyor create them. To locate a file, from the File menu, selectFind.... Then, depending on what version of thesoftware you have, do the following:
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- For Sherlock 2 (Mac OS 9.x), in the
Sherlock
window, click the radio button next toCustom..., and then click Edit.... In theMore Search Options
window, under 'Advanced Options',click the first checkbox for is invisible. To return toSherlock, click the OK button, and then search to locateinvisible files on your computer. - For Sherlock (Mac OS 8.5 through 8.6), in the
Sherlock
window, click the Find by Content tab,and then hold down theOption
key and click the leftpop-up criteria menu. Select the Visibility option to chooseto locate all invisible files on your computer. - For the Find File utility, in the
Find File
window,hold down theOption
key and click the left pop-upcriteria menu. Select the Visibility option to choose tolocate all invisible files on your computer.
ResEdit
You can use ResEdit to find and modify invisible files. Because itworks only with files that have resource forks, ResEdit isprobably not the best alternative to use with files that only havedata forks, such as images or text files. Also, it can beused to modify applications, which means that you could accidentallyruin files and applications when using this utility. You can downloadthis program at the mac.org web site.
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To use ResEdit, start the program and locate the file or folder youwant to make visible or invisible. ResEdit lists all of the files onyour computer, so it is important that you find the correct file toedit. After opening the file, from the File menu, selectGet Info for filename, where
filename
is thename of the file you are editing. A box will appear with informationabout the file. By selecting or deselecting the Invisiblecheckbox at the bottom, you will be able to make the file invisible orvisible, respectively.Snitch
A good shareware solution for locating invisible files isSnitch. Snitch is a control panel that modifies the information thatappears in the Get Info file properties window. Once youhave Snitch installed and activated, you can use it by single-clickinga file and, from the File menu, selecting Get Info.If Snitch isn't immediately apparent when the
Get Info
window appears, click the right arrow at the top right of theGet Info
window. You will be able to make the fileinvisible by clicking the box next to Invisible. Snitch canalso make all the files within a folder visible, making it easy tolocate and modify invisible files.You can download Snitch from NiftyNeato Software.
Other solutions
There are numerous other programs available that you can use tomodify, make, and find invisible files. Some allow you to make filesinvisible and add password protection to them. Others allow you tosearch and find all invisible files on a hard disk. Many of these areshareware applications, and you can find them in any Macintoshsoftware archive.