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After my Porsche-designed external hard drive failed with my iTunes library on it, I took advice on how to restore my iTunes library from my iPod. This involved using 2 bits downloaded software... TinkerTool & XRay... job done... BUT I now have some invisible files visible on my computer, notably .DS_Store and a few others. Using XRay on individual files I have tried to make them invisible again (one is firmly rooted on my desktop!) but it does not matter what I do or whether they say they are visible or invisible, they are determined to remain visible. Am I going to have to learn to live with this irritation or is there something else I can do to revert my computer to how it was?

Use TinkerTool to set the Finder not to show normally invisible items. That setting is global and overrides all invisibility flags.
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