Show Hidden Files and Folders on macOS with a Keyboard Shortcut

Soufiane Rafik
1 min readJun 10, 2018

You can quickly show ‘Hidden’ folders/files on macOS high sierra by simply following these steps:

Go to Finder and open any folder (Ex: MacintoshHD/Users/user/)
Finder
Hold: Command + Shift + . 

You will be able to see all the hidden folders/files:

Hidden Files / Folders

To Hide the files again, you just need to repeat the same exact thing:

Hold: Command + Shift + .

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