"unhide" a Folder

[anon2424]

Hi, someone brought up "documents and setting" so I decided to try and find the equivalent appdata folder for windows 7. I was messing around in my administrator folder under users in c and checked "hidden" under properties (this was before I looked up how to show hidden folders!). Turns out this really messes with many of the programs that I use. :sarc:

Is there a way to unhide the folder? I do not mean to show it on the screen but to revert it back to a normal folder?

inb4 flame as I am well aware there is another similarly worded but unrelated question.

 

[richc46]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/394-hidden-files-folders-show-hide.html?ltr=H

Hope the information in the above tut helps.

Anything more than the above, a simple sytem restore should do the trick

 

[anon2424]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/394-hidden-files-folders-show-hide.html?ltr=H

Hope the information in the above tut helps.

Points for the fast reply. I've already checked out the tut before posting and found it didn't apply to my case. I know how to show hidden files. I want to make a hidden file not a hidden file anymore.

 

[richc46]

As far as I know you can hide a normal folder and hide or unhide a hidden folder. I do not know of a way to make a hidden folder an "unhidden folder"

 

[anon2424]

As far as I know you can hide a normal folder and hide or unhide a hidden folder. I do not know of a way to make a hidden folder an "unhidden folder"

Hmmm is it possible to revert my admin user folder back to it's default state? Surely there is an option to change hidden folders to unhidden.

 

[richc46]

As I said above, I would try a system restore, from before the problem.

 

[anon2424]

As I said above, I would try a system restore, from before the problem.

Already have tried. The folder remains hidden.

 

[Brink]

Hello Anon,

You might see if this will allow you to unhide the folder.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/56005-file-folder-hide-unhide.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[anon2424]

Ahhh, this is my mistake. Sorry for not providing the correct info. The folder itself is not hidden. However, the files inside the folder are all hidden.

 

[Brink]

The link I posted above will also show you how to unhide the files.

 

[anon2424]

The link I posted above will also show you how to unhide the files.

Yep, it was what got me to check the files instead of the folder. Cheers!

 

[Brink]

LOL, oh ok. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted now.

 

[anon2424]

LOL, oh ok. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted now.

whoops, was too early to celebrate. Do you know if user folders are read-only by default?

 

[Brink]

Yes, they have the +r file attribute to them. See step 12 in Method Two here for how to run the attribute command like them, but on the user folder you need it for instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/16312-user-folders-restore-default-icon.html

What folder do you need to this on, and I'll be happy to post back the correct command for it?