Ubuntu should not always show NTFS system and hidden files and directories

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Binary package hint: ntfs-3g

Ubuntu should hide NTFS system files by default, and allow to configure it to show them. The same for hidden files. It should consider not only ".file" to hide or show, but also the flag of hidden files on a NTFS partition.

[Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)]

This doesn't seem to be easy to implement thought, but this should be somehow done

[Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)]

Well, it appears that there is no standard interface in linux to query 'hidden' attribute.
(in fact there is - in unix world all hidden files start with '.')

Meanwhile, a solution would be ability to manually hide files.
How about simple config file/gconf entries to say which files to hide, and nautilus extension?

[Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)]

I don't use windows much, but I have to use it for my assigments, and I hate all these registry files in my home folder

[Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)]

+1

[Jean-Pierre (jean-pierre-andre)]

You can use the option hide_hid_files with a recent ntfs-3g version.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirming because it happens to several people.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Unix knows nothing about these windows filesystem specific flags. Artificially adding a dot to the name will have unintended consequences, such as breaking scripts or causing the name to *really* have a dot prefix if you copy the file.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

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On 5/13/2013 2:07 PM, Renato Silva wrote:
> But that's just a suggestion, not the request and the reason to
> close the bug. Ironically, as Jean-Pierre said, the NTFS-3G guys
> have implemented the feature, and Ubuntu would just need to make
> use of that option.

Then you flat out would not be able to see hidden files, and we don't
want that.

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