Comments on: Cloak: Manage Your Invisible Files

By: Greg Slepak

Greg Slepak — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:32:45 +0000

@Smitty: the invisible Finder attribute only works with the Mac OS X Finder.

By: Smitty

Smitty — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:52:10 +0000

Pardon me… XXX means “invisible finder Attribute” feature.

By: Smitty

Smitty — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:49:54 +0000

I’m a Mac user testing out Cloak. I’m also a Photographer who’s been searching for a solution to protect my .JPEG’s from prospective customers. I’ve been using a slide-show program to host my photos and I nest the JPEG’s in a hidden folder. The slide-show program is able to link to and read the JPEG’s but the user is unable to find the JPEG’s. Now, I package everything into a .ZIP file and store on a cloud server for prospective customers to download and view. The hidden folder must maintain it’s integrity when packaged in the .ZIP as well as when being viewed by a Windows PC user. I’ve no PC to test on, so I’m asking if the xxx feature will is compliant when viewed by a Windows PC user?

NOTE: I’ve been using Norton Utilities SpeedDisk to accomplish this hidden folder task. However, it’s been discontinue and only available for OS9 and I need a software solution for OSX 10.4 for an efficient work-flow.

By: Greg Slepak

Greg Slepak — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:27:46 +0000

Hi Jim, it depends on what you did exactly.

If you used the dot-prefix to hide the Desktop folder that means it was renamed, and then if you logged out and logged back in the Desktop folder may have been re-created (empty though).

If that’s the case, then to fix that you’ll need to move the empty Desktop folder to the trash (your Desktop folder is in your Home folder). Then use Cloak to remove the dot-prefix from the invisible Desktop folder.

If instead you just used the invisible Finder attribute, just uncheck it in Cloak.

Hope that helps!

By: jim

jim — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:34:32 +0000

I accidently cloaked my desktop. How do I get it uncloaked? All I see is two files on the desk top. Also I think i changed the root when try to get it back. It’s a Mac runing tiger. Can you help me?

By: John Ashenden

John Ashenden — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:33:06 +0000

Invisinator FTW!!!!

By: Mezzrow

Mezzrow — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:45:15 +0000

Like many people, I just wanted a way to keep certain files out of view of others who occasionally use my Mac, but since none of them are NSA employees, hard-core encryption is just overkill. Thanks so much for such a simple way to accomplish that!

By: George Machen

George Machen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:35:41 +0000

Thanks for your generous contribution to the Mac community. And it’s *freeware* to boot – I’m almost in tears!

The biggest improvement for user-friendly navigation would be:

- Make the Home, End, PageUp, PageDown keys work properly.

- Like in the Finder, allow selection of a file or folder by typing the first few characters.

Thanks again!

By: sakae

sakae — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:07:14 +0000

thank you for such a nice app.