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Making Hidden Folders In OS X [Video How-To]
Mar 11, 2025
A how to about making hidden folders in Mac OS X.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can make hidden folders on your
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Mac hidden folders is one thing that
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windows kind of leads the mac platform
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in it's very easy to work with hidden
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folders inside of Windows but inside of
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Mac os10 it's not something you can
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really work with by default so in order
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to make a hidden folder we're actually
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going to have to move over to terminal
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and you can access number by opening up
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a new Finder window going into your
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Applications folder and then from there
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utilities folder towards the bottom and
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inside there you'll find terminal you
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can open that up now in terminal we're
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going to make a folder so the way you
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make a folder in terminal is you type in
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mkdir space and then the name of your
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folder and it's going to by default
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create this folder inside of your home
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directory if I just typed mkdir which is
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make directory and then any name it
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would make a folder with that name but
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in order to make a hit in what I have to
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do is I have to put a period in front of
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the word so we're going to call this
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period and then hidden so now if we hit
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enter it has made the folder you don't
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see any type of indication that it's
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done but it is and then you can quit
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terminal now if we want to access this
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polar I can open up my home directory
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here in a new Finder window and you can
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see there is no folder in here called
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hidden because obviously it's hidden so
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what I can do to get to the hidden
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folder is hit command shift G and from
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here it's going to make you type a path
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to the folder so we're going to type in
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/ users and then your username so /
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Mykal stieber in this case and then
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slash dot hidden and now we're in the
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dot hidden folder and nobody can get to
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this folder except us so from here let's
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say I want to put this other folder
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inside the hidden folder it's in there
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now nobody can see it I can close this
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window up and if i go back in here you
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can see there's no hidden folder there's
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no other folder you can't find it
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you can see even if I search for the
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hidden folder I can't find it because it
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is hidden and I also won't be able to
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search for any folders within the hidden
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folder now if I want to get back to this
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quickly if I just hit command shift G
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again it saved the last full of command
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so I can go right to that now I guess
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for added privacy you could probably get
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rid of that every time but this is a
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quick way and not a lot of people use
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that command the go command so you don't
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really have to worry about that and I
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can just go back to this folder so now
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with hidden folders the only way you can
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access them is by going to the go
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command or by using a tool to reveal
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hidden folders and a tool that you can
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use to reveal hidden folders is called
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secrets and it's a system preferences
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pane and you can download this and you
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have a lot of different options and I
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can go under finder and you can see
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hidden folders will be in here if I just
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search for it here hidden so i can show
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hidden files with an application like
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secrets as well but other than that it's
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a very secure way to kind of hide stuff
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it's not secure as in encryption but it
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is a way to keep your private folders
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hidden from others that you know you
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don't want to get it so there you go
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that's how to make hidden folders inside
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Mac os10 as I was if you have anything
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that you'd like to see me do a how-to on
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make sure send me an email I hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching
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you
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