View hidden files mac terminal2/1/2024 ![]() Since the release of macOS Sierra, when in Finder, it is now possible to use the shortcut: CMD + SHIFT +. The Quickest Way to Show/Hide Hidden Files All I need do now is type showFiles and hideFiles whenever I need to show/hide OS X's hidden files. Today I decided to make a short and easy to remember alias to speed up the process. Update (April 26): As confirmed by 9to5Mac, it was removed in macOS Ventura 13.4 beta 3.It seems like every day I search Google for the command to show hidden files on Mac OS X, not to mention Googling for the command to then hide those hidden files a few minutes later. They’ve indicated it will likely be removed in future versions. Update: A little bird tells me that someone internally filed it as an issue nearly a year ago, assigned to the same engineer who put the PDF there in the first place, and that person hasn’t taken action or commented on the issue since. If you know anything more - about how or why the Bitcoin paper ended up in macOS or what Virtual Scanner II is for - get in touch or leave a comment. There’s no EXIF metadata in the file, but photographer Thomas Hawk identified it as the location of a nearly identical photo he shot in 2008. One other oddity: there’s a file called cover.jpg in the Resources folder used for testing the Photo media type, a 2,634×3,916 JPEG photo of a sign taken on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. Here's a mystery: why do I have an Image Capture device called Virtual Scanner II on my Mac? It shows a preview of a painted sign that for some reason closely resembles a photo by on 'clustershot'? But not exactly - the scanned version looks more weathered. Namely, this Twitter thread from designer Joshua Dickens in November 2020, who also spotted the whitepaper PDF, inspiring this Apple Community post in April 2021. As of this moment, there are only a couple references to “Virtual Driver II” or the whitepaper file in Google results. There’s virtually nothing about this online. Maybe it was just a convenient, lightweight multipage PDF for testing purposes, never meant to be seen by end users. Of all the documents in the world, why was the Bitcoin whitepaper chosen? Is there a secret Bitcoin maxi working at Apple? The filename is “simpledoc.pdf” and it’s only 184 KB. In Image Capture, select the “Virtual Scanner II” device if it exists, and in the Details, set the Media to “Document” and Media DPI to “72 DPI.” You should see the preview of the first page of the Bitcoin paper. It’s not clear why it’s hidden for some or what exactly it’s used for, but Reid Beels suggested it may power the “Import from iPhone” feature. In the Image Capture utility, the Bitcoin whitepaper is used as a sample document for a device called “Virtual Scanner II,” which is either hidden or not installed for everyone by default. Control-click on VirtualScanner.app and Show Package Contents, open the Contents→Resources folder inside, then open simpledoc.pdf.) (If you’re not comfortable with Terminal, open Finder and click on Macintosh HD, then open the System→Library→Image Capture→Devices folder. If you’re on macOS 10.14 or later, the Bitcoin PDF should immediately open in Preview. Open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf If you’re on a Mac, open a Terminal and type the following command: Update: As confirmed by 9to5Mac, it was removed in macOS Ventura 13.4 beta 3. ![]() The file is found in every version of macOS from Mojave (10.14.0) to the current version, Ventura (13.3), but isn’t in High Sierra (10.13) or earlier. I’ve asked over a dozen Mac-using friends to confirm, and it was there for every one of them. ![]() While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.
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