Hiding private folders

A

Al Christoph

There used to be in some earlier version a way of hiding those folders that
began with an underscore. This seems to be lost in FP 2003. They really
clutter things up a good share of the time. Any way to do it?

Regards,
Al
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

It is that you just don't want to see them while you are working in FP or what?

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Jim Buyens

-----Original Message-----
There used to be in some earlier version a way of hiding
those folders that began with an underscore. This seems
to be lost in FP 2003. They really clutter things up a
good share of the time. Any way to do it?

Regards,
Al
Click to expand...

Try this:

1. Choose Options from teh Tools menu.
2. Click the Advanced Tab.
3. Clear the Show Hidden Files And Folders check box.
4. Click OK.

Jim Buyens
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A

Al Christoph

Jim:

Thanks for the response to my question on how to hide private folders in the
directory tree. However, ...

Neither FP 2002 or FP 2003 has an advanced tab on Tools | Options, at least
as I have it set up. Is there some permission I haven't given myself in
order to see this?

BTW: Help in 2003 didn't pick up anything useful.

Regards,
Al
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Note: The _private folder will always be viewable. Also if you create your own _folders and then hid
them, you will not be able to create links to the content within them via the dialogs, you will have
manually create the hyperlink.

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C

chris leeds

I wonder what'd happen if you added another leading _ to the _private
folder. ;-)
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Simple, the FP extensions will not be able to located it, so any component that needs it would fail
and the permissions would be destroyed, and if you run a check on the extensions, FP would recreate
the _private folder.

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chris leeds

thought it'd possibly be a way to hide the private folder. guess not.
didn't have time to try. ;-)
 
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