How To Hide Files And Folders In Your File Manager Without Renaming Them [Quick Tip]
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Usually if you want to hide a file or folder so it doesn’t show up in your file manager, you can rename it by adding a dot (".") at the beginning of the filename.However, there are situations in which you may want to hide a file or folder without renaming it. For instance, some applications insist on creating a folder in the user’s home directory or in the Documents folder (and they can’t be renamed) and so on. But I don’t want these folders cluttered - I want to easily find what I’m looking for.For such situations or whatever other reasons, there’s another way of hiding files and folders (prevent them from showing up in the file manager only): you can create a file called “.hidden” (there’s a dot in front of “hidden” so this is a hidden file!) and in this file, enter the name of the (...)