Undercover

Undercover Publisher's Description:
It's nice to see things. Even with the ACP there are certain things that won't be visible in Apple's OS X shell. And for ordinary punters the issues multiply rapidly.

Unix has only one way of hiding a file - and it's not really a matter of hiding it anyway. It's just that the file won't often be recognised. This method is of course putting a dot ('.') in front of the file name.

But OS X has two ways of really hiding files - and they're not so easy to deal with.

1. .hidden. A file containing names of files to be hidden.
2. kIsInvisible. An archaic HFS flag still recognised by the OS X shell.

Perhaps the most infamous example of something on OS X being hidden against user wishes is the iPod_Control directory on the iPod hard drive - it's kept hidden to make it more difficult for you to copy your song collection back to your hard drive.

Undercover shows you everything hidden by OS X in your system. Once it's uncovered you can do anything with it you like - and yes, even in your Finder.

What's new in this version:

Integration with Terminal to dig even deeper where you used to be afraid to go.