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Nov 21, 2014  The Easiest Way to Hide Files and Folders on a Mac Matt Klein @howtogeek November 21, 2014, 12:34pm EDT Doing stuff on a Mac is supposed to be so easy and intuitive, that it’s surprising when something isn’t.

  • There wouldn’t be any problems if you need to have a quick access to the hidden files or folders. Open the Finder, Click the ‘Go’ menu, and then tap on the 'Go to folder'. Insert the folder path which we hide before into the dialog box, then press Enter or click Go. ‘’ means your user folder.
  • While it's true that turning on the hidden attribute for a sensitive file will make it 'invisible' to the regular user, you shouldn't use it as a means to safely hide your files from prying eyes. Unhiding a hidden file/folder is easy for anyone to do, as you can see above.
  • Nov 20, 2017  Open File Explorer from the taskbar. Select View Options Change folder and search options. Select the View tab and, in Advanced settings, select.
  • Sep 05, 2011  How do I hide temporary files (for example MS Word.tmp files)? I made a big mistake earlier and accidentally hid my entire 'my documents' folder. After that, I un-hid everything, trying to fix the mistake, but that means now that all the temporary files and folders (for example Microsoft Word garbage files) are in every single folder.
  • Mar 19, 2020  Office 2016 MAC Where is the (new) Microsoft User Data folder. Previously you wonderfully could always include the Microsoft User Data folder to your backup and if there was some trouble, the defective DB could be simple be replaced by the 'old' one.
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Use the sidebar of the Storage pane to sort through items by category, see how much space is used, and quickly find documents, apps, books, movies, backups, and other files. Then delete what you no longer need.

Note: The categories you see vary, depending on the apps and files on your Mac.

  1. Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, click Storage, then click Manage.

  2. Click a category in the sidebar:

    • Applications, Music, and Books: These categories list files individually. To delete an item, move the pointer over the file name, then click the Delete button .

      Note: If you delete an item that you got from the iTunes Store, the App Store, or Apple Books using your Apple ID, the item is still in iCloud, and you can download it again.

    • Documents: See all the documents on your Mac. You can quickly view large files or downloads by clicking the corresponding button, and sort files by clicking Name, Kind, Last Accessed, or Size near the top of the window. You can also click File Browser to view the contents and amount of storage used by various folders in your file system.

      Note: Some folders and files that are already represented by categories in the sidebar—other than Documents—are dimmed.

      To delete a file, move the pointer over the file, then click the Delete button ; click the magnifying glass to view the file in the Finder.

    • iCloud Drive and Mail: These categories provide general recommendations for optimizing storage. To accept the recommendation, click the button.

    • iOS files: See iOS backup and firmware files listed individually. To delete an item, move the pointer over the file, then click the Delete button .

    • Trash: In this category, click Empty Trash to erase all the items in the Trash. Move the pointer over a file, then click the Delete button to delete an individual file.

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I had to restart the finder for this change to take effect.
Also, if you don't have the backup issue that the author has, you can just make the existing folder invisible without creating the alias.

Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

I tried simply to hide the folder using the command, and got an error message because of the spaces in the folder name. So I retyped the command, pressing Tab after Microsoft, and Terminal entered the required backslash prefix to the spaces automatically. After a relaunch of the finder (via Cmd-Opt-esc), the folder is invisible. Thanks!

Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

Be careful. If you use Entourage, your life is also kept in that User Data folder. You might want that backed up.

That's so fabulous! I just did it with my 'iChats' folder, too (gotta save 'em for work reasons). Finally! I've been wondering about that forever..

Be careful if you've moved the iChats folder and made an alias to it! Because Apple *still* has not implemented proper support for Mac OS aliases in Cocoa, iChat cannot follow an alias. If you've replaced the transcripts folder with an alias, iChat won't complain, but it also won't save any transcripts. I spent some time on this because I want to be able to put the iChat transcript folder where I want, not where Apple wants. My final solution:
-Leave the iChat transcript folder ('iChats') in your Documents folder.
-Make an alias from the transcripts folder to wherever you want the iChat transcripts folder to 'really' be (i.e. where you will access it from). Name it whatever you want.
-Now make the original transcript folder (in the Documents folder) invisible. The alias you created will still be visible and it will still open the transcripts folder.

Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

Ummm..
I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but this is *all unnecessary.*
Just drag your Microsoft User Data folder to your Library (~/Library/) and Office will find it there just fine, and never create a new one in your Documents folder.
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Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

didn't work for me. MS just went and created a new User Data folder to replace the one I just moved.

Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I just tried it, and Word did re-create the Microsoft User Data in my Documents folder. Perhaps there is more to the trick than your post suggested?
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Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

Difference between microsoft linux and mac download. Hi,
It has worked for me.
I moved the Microsoft User Data folder to /User/xxx/Library/Application Data while Word was opened.
After having closed Word then re-opened it, the Microsoft User Data folder was NOT re-created in my Document folder.
So, the SetFile command is not the only solution to get rid of this folder.
Bye,
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My folder gets recreated in Documents when I try this. Running 10.3.2 with latest MS Office updates on a relatively clean system, no haxies. I tried moving to my Library folder, Application Support, and I created an Application Data folder. Didn't work, and that doesn't surprise me.

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Unexpected Error Loading Microsoft Framework X Library

I recently installed Microsoft Office on 25 MACs and had an 'unexpected error loading Microsoft Framework X library' on 5 of them. Do you have a fix for this?

Unexpected Error Loading Microsoft Framework X Library
Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

thanks so much man. Can i download microsoft publisher on my mac. i applied for an account on this message board just to thank you. i appreciate an explanation like urs which is easily understandable by a new Mac convert. it means a lot

Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

Yeah its pretty annoying that Apps create folders in Documents. Appleworks, MS, Inspiration and Adobe Acrobat all do this too. My backup script I have contains a list of folders to ignore. So its pretty easy to add in new folders and such.

Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

I have to say that this 'feature' is the one reason I have stayed with Entourage instead of mail. I move between computers and can simply copy this one folder to take all my mail with me. With Mail.app, I would have to copy my preferences separately (or so I believe).
I could get around this using aliases on all the machines I use but its not as neat as the office solution.

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When you said 'take all of my mail with me' did you mean that literally, or did you also mean take all of the minor window prefs for Mail? You could just copy ~/Library/Mail from one to the next. This folder contains all of your mailboxes and everything, including the accounts.
There is one preference file, that is ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. So may be that my post is not such a riposte, but the prefs file is pretty limited. Anyway, there is not much more than with the MS Data folder. When I back up or transfer the Mail data I do not bother with the prefs file.
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Great hint. I moved a bunch of folders into the Application Support folder in my Library.
One question though, why do you have the /. in the path to the SetFile program? I've never seen that. Isn't /Developer/Tools/SetFile the proper way to do it? What's the /. for?

Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

Well dammit, this is a whole new thing. After how many years. . . Just opened Entourage '04 and it acted like that MSUserData Dolder was always in /User/Library/Preferences.
Sure is nice to have the Documents Folder back for my own use. I had such an arcane thing going, just to have my own files. Thank you! [10.4.5, AlBook]

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Move and hide the Microsoft Office User Data folder

Yep it works but the place has to be /Library/Preferences not just /Library

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where do you type that developer code into?
Thanks