Hide the Tiger

Posted: Wed, August 29, 2007 (17:02 PDT)

I found some good content on the Westwind Computing website that provides nice explanations of all the hidden files and folders on Mac OS X (10.4.x) Tiger.

Exasperated Tiger

What are all these crazy files for?

These details are handy to have at your fingertips if you are setting up an up-to-date development web server on your Mac with XAMPP and Symfony. It’s also the kind of info that (in my experience) disappears without notice one day when the website it’s hosted on gets redesigned or taken off-line for some reason.

For this reason, I am going to more-or-less repeat the info on the Westwind Computing page in this post. I don’t think this really violates any copyrights because all this information is obviously freely available in official Apple documentation. Plus, I reformatted it (a lot), fixed some spelling and grammatical errors, and rewrote some sections for clarity. Read the rest of this entry »