Thursday, October 11, 2012

How to show hidden files on Mac 10.8 Mountain Lion

Safari.Plist corrupted and you want to delete to fix but suddenly cant find it anymore. Yes the Apple gods have decided that the average user does not need to be bothered by all those pesky preference files and has hidden them by default. Not to worry here is a quick command line that can reveal those broken setting for you to delete.
launch terminal and past the following code in.
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall -HUP Finder


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