![]() ![]() There may be when you’ve some personal data in a folder already stored in the gallery, and someone peeked at it. Move all your personal data into the hidden folder.Insert a dot at the starting of the file name to create a hidden folder.Examine File Manager settings and choose the “Create New Folder” option.Look for “File Manager” and launch the app.To prevent your personal data from people to view, you can create a hidden folder to store your confidential data.įollow these guidelines to create a hidden folder in your Android to save your data from others’ eyes. In the gallery, a curious set of eyes can see your images and videos, which you don’t want them to see. Whenever you take a photo or document a video, it goes into your gallery. Method #3: Hide Files Using a Third-Party App.Use the comment section and let me know your thoughts. I hope you liked this simple topic and learned something new. It’s a bit old article but it may still work. I have written about locking folders with passwords in Linux. If you want to create secret files or folders that cannot be accessed by other people, you should encrypt them. I have discussed creating files that are hidden from the normal view. The same convention gets followed in Linux as Linux was modeled after UNIX. The ls command was probably modified later to add options to display hidden dot files. This bug turned into a feature as programmers like it for ‘hiding’ their config files. was hidden from the output of the ls command. files but it introduced a ‘bug’ where any filename starting with. The feature was to check the first character of a filename and if it’s a dot (.), it was no longer displayed with the ls command. files had no real data in them, a new ‘feature’ was added to the ls command. (parent directory) files were added for ease of navigation.Īs these special. In the early UNIX days, when the filesystem was created, the. at the beginning of the file name was actually a bug? Bonus Trivia: The hidden files ‘feature’ was actually a bugĭo you know that this ‘feature’ to hide a file by adding a. When you don’t want the files hidden anymore, remove their name from the. If you want to see them again, press Ctrl+H keys. You won’t see the files and directories mentioned in the. Now, close your file explorer and start it again. Here’s a sample which I used to hide the cpufetch directory and pcloud file without renaming them: pcloud Your desired files and folders should be in the same location as this special. Keep in mind that it doesn’t take absolute or relative path. Add the name of the files or folders in separate lines. Press Ctrl+H to show the hidden files and open. hidden in the directory where your desired files or folders (to be hidden) are located.Īn alternate way of hiding files in Linux ![]() So, what you do here is to create a new file named. It sure works in the Nautilus file manager of GNOME. It should work under various file managers like Nemo, Thunar, Dolphin etc but I cannot vouch for it. There is a neat trick that can be used in the Linux desktop. Similarly, there’s a firefox.tmp folder under the Downloads directory in Ubuntu 22.04 (for the snap version of Firefox). You are not going to use it but if you rename it, your snap apps won’t work as expected. The problem is that you have to rename the files and that’s not ideal in all situations.įor example, in Ubuntu, you’ll see a folder named ‘snap’ in your directory. Bonus tip: Hide files and folders without renaming them (works in GUI only) You can display the hidden files using this command: ls -la at the beginning of the original filename. You just have to rename the file by adding a. If you are stuck with the terminal, you can use the mv command to rename the file. Create hidden files and folders in Linux terminal (CLI method) To make the hidden files normal again, just rename them again by removing the dot from the beginning of the file name. Oh! how much I love keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu or any other program or OS I use. You can press Ctrl+H keys to display the hidden files. You can hide a folder along with all its contents in the same way. ![]()
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