Wart Removal Recovery

How to show hidden files in Mac OSX Snow Leopard?

With two "Terminal" lines:

       defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE           
           killall Finder       

The first one changes a finder setting while the latter restarts finder.

Links:

• http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/1052/Show-hidden-files-in-the-Mac-finder
• http://www.usingmac.com/2009/5/9/ways-to-relaunch-finder