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How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5
One of the folders in my home folder, Music, appears to be hidden. In the finder it appears slightly greyed out
and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidden files.
I tried to unhide the folder using
chflags nohidden Music
to no avail. I also checked with
ls -lO
drwx------@ 6 username staff - 192 Aug 26 18:31 Music
if there are any other flags.
Any ideas of how to unhide the folder?
1 answer
Thanks a lot at @Quasímodo for pushing me in the right direction. The problem turned out to be an extended attribute set for this folder.
To see if there are extended attributes, one can use
xattr Music
In my case, this gave com.apple.FinderInfo, so I removed it with
xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo Music
and now the folder behaves normally.
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