How to hide folders in Mac OSX (Terminal)

Hiding files in Mac OSX is quite different to other operating systems. It requires using Terminal, which is a night mare for some people? However, in this little tutorial, I will teach you how to do it and this will surprise you of how simple Terminal really is.

1. Open Terminal: There are many ways in fact, one of the easiest is to type “Terminal” into your search bar (top right corner on your Mac’s screen), other way is to open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.

Open Terminal

2. Type in (or copy/paste the code below) the directory of where you want to create your hidden folder. In this case I want to save the folder on my desktop.

cd /users/<YourUserAccount>/<Directory>

Note: Remember to replace <YourUserAccount> with your user account and <Directory> with where you want to save the folder, eg: Desktop, Documents, Movies,…

3. Now create the hidden folder by entering the code below into Terminal:

mkdir .<HiddenFolderName>

Note: Make sure you change <HiddenFolderName> to you own selected folder name and also “.” before it,  the “.” is what makes the folder hidden.

4. Now, to open the folder, go to Finder. On your keyboard, press down:  ⌘ + Shift + G  and type in the hidden folder directory:

/users/<YouUserAccount>/<Directory>

…and drag your porn files into the hidden folder

5. Want to remove the folder? No problem, type into Terminal in the following codes:

rm -r .<HiddenFolderName> 

Done! Simple is that! Now you can have the whole collection of porn into your Mac without worrying about anyone finding out… well, as long as you don’t open them when someone is home.