[DW 19 on macOS] How to hide "hidden files and folders" in the DW file manager?

[mistershortcut]

In the filemanager "finder" on macOS (I use the latest version) you can hide files/folders in two ways:

a leading dot in the name or the terminal command "chflags hidden".

Dreamweaver shows those files/folders.

Please how can I achieve, that DW hides those files/folders in it's own file manager?

Thanks

[BenPleysier]

What I have seen is

Since the release of macOS Sierra, when in Finder, it is now possible to use the shortcut:

CMD + SHIFT + .

I do not use a Mac, so I cannot verify.

[mistershortcut]

Hi Ben.

You missunderstood me.

I know how to hide files/folders in the finder.

I like to know how to hide them in the file manager of DW.

[Nancy OShea]

You cannot hide files from DW's Files Panel but you can CLOAK them.  Cloaking prevents files from being uploaded. 

Cloak files and folders in your Dreamweaver site

[mistershortcut]

@Nancy

My question is, why DW does not hide those files, which the file manager of the OS (mac OS Finder) is hiding by default.

[Nancy OShea]

I don't make the software.  In all the years I've used DW, I've never needed to hide files. If the file causes problems locally, I delete it from my local site folder.

[mistershortcut]

Sometimes I miss fair and critical voices in this forum.

Almost everyone here seems to justify any behaviour of DW.

For me it very clearly a deficiency, when a file manager of an app does not overtake the behaviour of the standard file manager of the OS. Here we talk about hidden files.

[Nancy OShea]

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

My preference is to always show hidden files & folders on my OS.

[mistershortcut]

@Nancy

Of course I do not criticize your preference.

I criticize, that users who have the same preference as they get in their file manager of the os, are standing in the rain with the file manager of DW.

[anissa_thompson · Accepted solution]

(Reposted from previous thread)

If it isn't intended to be managed or transferred by Dreamweaver, it really shouldn't be in the site folder. Dreamweaver shouldn't be expected to execute OS-level management, and that would be potentially problematic were it introduced into features. I could only imagine how many countless unintended document "hidings" would cause unending file and GIT/repository errors, not to mention misleading team devs. You would be safer setting expectations and standards/convention at your team level to get your file managers to safely move the files out of the site as part of their process.