Hiding "invisible" files

[Tomer1c]

Is it possible to hide local files starting with a dot (=invisible files on a Mac, e. g. ".DS_Store") from the "Files" panel ("Window"/"Files")?

[Nancy OShea]

It might make things a lot easier if you define a local site folder for each project.   That way you're not looking at contents on your entire hard  drive.

Nancy

[Tomer1c]

Hi Nancy,

I don't use DW for large(r) projects, but usually only for single files. Therefore, in my case, it's often not worth defining a "Site"...

[Nancy OShea]

It's absolutely worth it to define a folder for your projects.  You can create one common folder called Empty_Site for example and use that whenever you need to edit something.   That's the way DW is designed to work.

[Tomer1c]

Nancy, that's an acceptable work-around – thanks for your support.

Nevertheless I think, that DW should not show hidden files per default. So I've made a feature request (IMHO more a bug fix request) at uservoice.com.

[Nancy OShea]

Showing hidden files is an OS thing, not a DW thing.

Nancy

[Tomer1c]

Nancy OSheaShowing hidden files is an OS thing, not a DW thing.

... and the applications should respect the OS-settings (—both macOS and Windows don't show as "invisible" marked files in their file managers).
I believe the reason why DW does not do this has to do with its cross-platform layer that's not so 100 % Mac-compatible. I mean to remember that DW for Windows does not show invisible files... am I right?

Apart from that it seems to be "Best practice" for Web-Editors/IDEs to hide invisible files per default. For good reason, IMO.

[Nancy OShea]

Tomer1c  wrote

...it seems to be "Best practice" for Web-Editors/IDEs to hide invisible files per default. For good reason, IMO.

I totally disagree.  Very often, I need to edit .htaccess and .htpasswd files.  I can't edit what I can't see.  Everyone has different workflows & requirements .  

Nancy