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Open a hidden folder from Mathematica frontend?

Pierre Albarede
Posted 5 years ago

Hello. How to open a hidden folder, for example ~/.WolframEngine, from the Mathematica 11.0.1 frontend?

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Yes, Raspberry pi uses Linux. Unfortunately, these key combinations did not work for me. As a workaround, I created a symbolic link :

pi@raspberrypi:~$ ls -s .WolframEngine WolframEngine

so that WolframEngine now appears in the open file menu and leads to .WolframEngine. Not very nice but the trick may be acceptable for linux users.
POSTED BY: Pierre Albarede

It looks like you are on Linux, so this may not work, but on MacOS, Command-Shift-Period will display hidden files in the Finder and the same shortcut keys work within Wolfram Desktop.

On versions of Linux with Nautilus file manager, it is Control+H, but not sure if it works in Wolfram.

Hope that helps.
POSTED BY: A J Hardesty

An invisible file can be opened by typing directly its name, for example ~/.Mathematica/Kernel/init.m. After opening .Mathematica, the menu can be used to go deeper and the Mathematica file explorer displays .Mathematica (only for current session). I am now on v12.2.
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