View Hidden Files and Folders in the Open/Dialog Any files you store in this folder are effectively hidden, too - no one can accidentally click their way to the folder, but they’ll appear in the Finder if you go there directly. If it was in Documents, you’d enter ~/Documents/SecretStuff.Īlthough the folder is hidden and won’t appear normally in the Finder or save dialogs, you can quickly access it this way. The ~ stands for your user folder, so if you had a folder named SecretStuff on your desktop, you’d enter ~/Desktop/SecretStuff. Plug the path of the folder into the dialog box and click Go or press Enter. Want to quickly access a hidden folder from the Finder? The easiest way is to click the Go menu in the Finder and select Go to Folder.
It’s still there - it’s just hidden, so the Finder won’t show it by default. Press Enter to run the command and the file or folder will vanish. The path of the file or folder will appear in the terminal.
