HideFiles is an easy way to make files invisible from the desktop. It will however not prevent somebody from opening the file from an application.
Besides the advantages of hiding files in some situations, such as making sure important files don't get put in the trash by children, there are some uses to making invisible files visible. If you make your desktop files (Desktop DB and Desktop DF) visible and then delete them, at startup your Mac will replace these files with ones with all current information. This is more effective than simply holding down Option-Command at startup, where the files are simply updated and in the long run may contain errors.
Some demonstration versions of software put invisible files on your hard drive (usually in the system folder ) with a date stamp on them; after a certain period of time, when the software compares the date on the file with the current date and it finds that a certain number of days have gone by, it will no longer run. Removing these files makes the software think that it is on a new Mac.
HideFiles 1.1 is freeware, but future versions will be shareware. Send comments, complaints or ideas to:
