<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 15, 2017, at 18:48, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 15, 2017, at 14:53, Lenore Horner <<a href="mailto:LenoreHorner@sbcglobal.net" class="">LenoreHorner@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 15, 2017, at 13:56, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 15, 2017, at 12:03, Dave Horsfall <<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org" class="">dave@horsfall.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, 16 May 2017, Joshua Root wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">You can hit cmd-shift-. to show hidden files and folders in open/save <br class="">dialogs.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">The question is of course why is /opt hidden in the first place? This <br class="">smacks of the M$ "you don't need to know this" attitude.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I thought we were hiding it, but it's not hidden on my systems and I can't find anywhere in the Makefile or postflight script where it's being hidden, so I must've imagined it.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>/opt (and other things like files beginning with . /Library) are hidden by the OS by default but it’s pretty easy to find instructions on how to turn the hiding off or make a script to toggle hiding. My guess is Ryan turned the hiding off entirely on his system. <br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">/opt is visible on all the systems I've checked, even those that are not configured to show invisible items.<br class=""><br class="">The OS does not have any idea what /opt is or that it should be hidden, unless someone told it to be that way. Apple for example told /Library to be that way as of Lion. I thought we made /opt hidden, but I can't find any evidence of that now.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote>/opt is not visible on my system (I usually us cmd-shift-G) even though files I have set the hidden flag for are currently showing in my save dialog box (but not things starting with .). The only directories visible at that level are /Applications /Library /System /Users. However, ~/Library is hidden. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Info at <a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html" class="">https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html</a> sounds to me like MacOS may hide /opt by default even if doesn’t start with a /opt directory. It’s not really clear.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>