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Show hidden files in Open and Save file dialogs

Snow Leopard has a great new hidden feature for developers. When you are opening or saving a file and you have a file dialog, you can toggle on and off the showing of hidden system files.

Once the dialog is open, hold down Shift + Command + . and it'll show all of the hidden system files in the dialog. Hit the key combination again and they'll be hidden.
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Categories: Mac Snow Leopard keyboard shortcut developers
Added: on Sep 20, 2009 at 7:17 am
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