Most operating systems make this rather trivial to expose, Apple seems to have made it just a tiny bit more difficult… as such, I provide the simple steps here for my own memory as well as your benefit.
Open Terminal…
- Launch Terminal, located at /Applications/Utilities/.
- Type or copy/paste the following commands. Press the return key after you enter each line.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
WARNING: Be particularly careful about the files you modify or delete, you could impact your system in very critical ways… there is a reason they are ‘hidden’, most often it is to keep less-technical users from breaking things 🙂
Return hidden files to their usual state.
Open Terminal…
- Launch Terminal, located at /Applications/Utilities/.
- Type or copy/paste the following commands. Press the return key after you enter each line.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
Cheers