When I erased the name of a file on Path Finder and left it just with the extension, the file simply disappeared...

Nowhere to be found, or at least I don't know how to find it... I tried doing the same thing in the Finder and it won't let me do that, this message appears: (You can't use a name that begins with a ".", because these names are reserved for the system. Please choose another name.). I didn't do it on purpose, but now I want to know what happened to the files and can I get them back...
Thank you.

In affect you are creating a hidden file, by removing file name. You need to either turn on viewing hidden files in Finder, or use third party software for viewing hidden files.
To see hidden files in Finder, open your terminal.app and copy and paste the following command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE ;killall Finder
and enter (return) then quit terminal.
to revert back change true to false, as below:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE ;killall Finder

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for

  • How to send User Master Data through XI

    Dear SAP gurus, We are currently configuring the e-recruiting module on a separate server than HR (following the SAP standard).  As our CUA is not connected to the E-REC systems, we are looking for a way to send properly the User Master Data from HR

  • No Picture Previews in Lightroom 3?

    Hi there I have just installed Lightroom 3 - on PC laptop - and imported some images from the Picture Folder on the OS drive Everything seems to be fine except (and its a major except) there are absolutely no thumbnails or previews of these pictures

  • Vlans with ESX 3.5 and Cat6509

    have Esx 3.5 with 6 physical NICs. It connects to my Cat6509 running 12.x IOS code. Have downloaded the Vmware/cisco whitepaper and several vmKB articles. Still have some confusion here. 1) Plan to run ESX in VST (vlan Tagging) mode. 2) What is the d

  • Migrate CS6 settings to CC

    I would like to copy settings from InDesign CS6, to InDesign CC on another computer, both mac. Except for me working with both versions, there is no link at all: they are on different computers, in different companies (and thus bought with different

  • Microsoft Outlook Express can not send email

    hi, i have setup a mail server w/ mac osx snow leopard mac mini, and i have setup the smtp and open relay to spesific IP address. Now everything looks fine for all the users, except for the users that using outlook express, they can retrieve emails,