How to hide a file or folder in macOS Finder
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I was slightly annoyed by macOS putting a Public
folder in my home folder, with no reason.
I couldn’t delete it as it’s a system folder.
So I found out a way to hide it instead.
Open the terminal and run chflags hidden <path>
, like this:
chflags hidden Public
Done!
In case you need to set it back to visible, us
chflags nohidden <path>
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