Ack! A year old thread, but just to clarify (since it's been revived anyway);

setfile -a V Makes the file invisible
setfile -a v Makes the file visible

The case [upper or lower] of the V is important.

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[HACK P5K]
ASUS P5K Deluxe/Wifi [ Q9650 / 8GB OCZ / EVGA 8800 GTX ]
Windows Se7en 500GB SATA
OSX 10.6.4 (vanilla-EFI) 500GB SATA
[HACK EP43]
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L [ E6700 / 8GB OCZ / PNY 250 GTS ]
Windows Vista 64bit 250 SATA
OSX 10.6.4 (vanilla-EFI) 160GB SATA

I know that myself.

But I didn't want to install the Dev Tools to my netbook - 16GB ain't much enaugh to waste space - the .hidden doesn't work on SL, and I was to lacy to transfer files from my other hack, so I was looking into some non pay-software.
My only intention with that posting was to warn people about using this one....

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