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How to hide files in Nautilus

In Linux, files which name start by a dot ‘.’ are hidden by default in most file managers. However, there are cases when we want to hide dot-file from our view. For examples:

Desktop folder in our home folder. Dropbox lost+found directory at the partition root …

In Nautilus (default GNOME file manager) there’s a way. Add a file named

.hidden

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