Open your file manager (such as GNOME Files, Dolphin, or Thunar). Once opened, navigate to the folder housing the hidden files and hit the Ctrl-H keyboard combination, which will show hidden files.

To show hidden files on any Mac, open a folder and press Command + Shift + . (period). The hidden files will show up in that folder.

MacOS allows you to hide files and folders by adding a simple period (.) to the file name. This can be handy if you want to share your MacBook with others and hide personal folders that other users ...

Messing around with certain macOS files could brick your Mac computer, so Apple has made them hard to find. But if you're ...

All the computers running on Windows Operating System have a folder named AppData on the C drive. By default, this folder is hidden. Therefore, you cannot access it until you unhide your system’s ...

To view or unhide your hidden file or folder, make File Explorer show hidden items. To do that, open File Explorer, click the three dots at the top, and choose "Options." ...

Some files in macOS may not be necessary and can be safely removed from your Mac. Here's how to delete them.

Of course, power users sometimes need access to hidden files and folders, like I did the other day when I went searching for an Outlook PST file. In the old XP days, I knew right where to find the ...

A hidden feature in the latest Insider build of Windows 11 adds a much-requested feature to File Explorer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

It’s uncommon, but you should be worried if you cannot find your files and folders on your Windows 11/10 PC. Usually, it happens because you may have moved to another folder and deleted it. But if ...