I have a folder ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft
that does not appear at all in ls
, autocomplete or Finder. If I navigate to the directory in the terminal and use open .
, Finder opens up to the Library
folder. I have "show hidden files" on.
Picture showing command prompt and Finder, showing that Finder has hidden folders available, that the folder can be navigated to in the terminal, and that the folder appears to be missing in Finder
I can move all its contents into a new folder with mv minecraft/ minecraft-backup
, and the new folder is completely visible. When I rename the new folder back to minecraft
it disappears once again. If I make a new folder at minecraft
it also disappears. If I put a text file in its place, it is also hidden, though can be edited by vim.
Here is the output from running stat
on the two folders:
⚡︎ stat minecraft/ minecraft-backup/
16777230 32605568 drwxr-xr-x 2 corms staff 0 64 "Dec 4 10:23:58 2021" "Dec 4 10:23:58 2021" "Dec 4 10:23:58 2021" "Dec 4 10:23:58 2021" 4096 0 0 minecraft/
16777230 6291018 drwxr-xr-x 37 corms staff 0 1184 "Dec 4 09:46:29 2021" "Dec 3 21:04:18 2021" "Dec 4 09:57:51 2021" "Jun 20 19:07:15 2020" 4096 0 0 minecraft-backup/
open "./Library/Application Support/minecraft/"
If it'shidden
bychflags
then you need tonohidden
it - which minecraft might fight you on. I don't have minecraft to test.ls -leO@d ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft
show? (It'll list ACL entries, flags, and extended attributes along with the usual info.)ls: /Users/corms/Library/Application Support/minecraft: No such file or directory