How do I unhide a jpeg?

Question

I have several jpegs which are hidden for some reason and I want to permanently unhide them so they appear with all my other jpegs in the finder window. I have unhidden the jpegs in question so that I can see them but I would like to know how to make this permanent so that when I go back to hiding all the files that need to be hidden the jpegs won't stay hidden. I've searched Google and I can only find info on generally unhiding files, not how to permanently unhide a file. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Open Preview. In the open file dialog box, aim it at the folder where your hidden images reside. Press shift+command+dot, and your hidden images will appear in the dialog. To rehide them, repeat this keystroke.
This works with dot files, and files hidden with chflags.
In the Finder, you need a mash a button and get an answer solution.
The following AppleScript can be saved as an Application via the AppleScript Editor, and placed on your Dock. It is a toggle too. It will show/hide every hidden file in the Finder window. The dot files and chflags hidden files will be shown as faded, and cannot be opened with a double-click, but rather the right-click contextual menu.
-- Submitted by Baltwo on Apple Support Community
try
          do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles"
on error
          do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0"
end try
if (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles") is equal to "0" then
          do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1"
else
          do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0"
end if
do shell script "killall Finder"