[GRLUG] save hidden files in windows

[Chase Bolen]

Seems to work from the command line:
"move test.txt .txt"
On Jul 15, 2011 3:09 PM, "David Pembrook" <david at pembrook.net> wrote:
>
>>> An FTP client would let you rename it. Just browse the local drive
>>> and rename it. Then you can stay in the gui and follow their
>>> instructions. I just tried it with filezilla, sure enough that
>>> works.
>> Those ideas make it sound like Rube Goldberg was an engineer for
>> Microsoft. Use an external machine over a network to rename a local
>> file. Perhaps from the Windows machine in question one could ssh into
>> the Linux box and ftp back to the Windows machine to rename the file.
>>
>> Heh.
> no, i was browsing the local files with filezilla, I didn't bother
> connecting anywhere... i just was sure it would let me as long as the
> file system did.
>
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