How do I see and remove hidden files?

I copied some .jpg files to an SD card to pop into the SD card slot on my new Panasonic plasma tv.
When I setup a slide show every other file says "cannot read file 01" . All the pictures are there but there are these hidden files ( I Assume) every other one. There seems to be one of these extra hidden files for each picture file.
It's really annoying watching a slide show this way.
The files don't show in a finder window.
Is there a way to see these files and delete them so they won't show in my slideshow?
Thanks for any info or help you can provide.
Len in NC

Are you copying these files from the Mac to a PC-formatted SD card? If so the invisible files to which you refer are the result of filesystem incompatibilities. The structure of a Mac file results in the file's resource fork being stripped off and saved as a separate file on the PC-formatted disk.
There are utilities that can "clean" files for use on PCs:
GrimReaperCM
Remove MacOS Junk
BlueHarvest
WinFSCleanser
Look for them at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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