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Q&A How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5

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 xa...

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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samcarter‭ · 2021-08-27T08:47:04Z (about 3 years ago)

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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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