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Winepronecowboy

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Aug 27, 2012
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I have recently switched to iSkysoft iMedia Converter for converting movies to watch on my apple TV, it works well and its fast but it keeps making folders that I don't want, one in my pictures folder and one in my movies folder.
I delete them but they come back as soon as its opened up again, is there a quick and easy way to just make them invisible so they don't appear anymore?

If not, its another converter as its very annoying.
 

dastinger

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Mar 18, 2012
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If you add a "." (without the quotation marks) before the name of the folder (no space between it and the first word), the folder will become invisible.
 
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Winepronecowboy

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 27, 2012
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If you add a "." (without the quotation marks) before the name of the folder (no space between it and the first word), the folder will become invisible.

It just says :(
"You can’t use a name that begins with a dot “.”, because these names are reserved for the system. Please choose another name."
 

Dalton63841

macrumors 65816
Nov 27, 2010
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SEMO, USA
If you add a "." (without the quotation marks) before the name of the folder (no space between it and the first word), the folder will become invisible.

It just says :(
"You can’t use a name that begins with a dot “.”, because these names are reserved for the system. Please choose another name."

It has to be renamed in Terminal to add the ".".

In any case it won't help. If deleting the folders leads to them being recreated, so will renaming the folders. If the application needs the folders to be there, then there's not much you can do besides find a different app that doesn't create them.

EDIT: Perhaps try this...
Open Terminal and type:
Code:
chflags hidden [DRAG FOLDER HERE]
 

dastinger

macrumors 6502a
Mar 18, 2012
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Completely forgot about the need to use Terminal in order to add a dot behind the name of the folder. Sorry about that.
 
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