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OP here. I have been following this thread hoping that it would shed some light on whether my issue with visible etc, tmp, and var aliases (or links as they might more accurately be described) can be rendered invisible again. It appears that they cannot, and I will simply have to live with their annoying persistence. It's hard for me to believe that's really true, but nobody has yet suggested a remedy that works.
By the way, my thanks to whomever suggested Cocktail, but all it does is toggle the visibility of otherwise invisible files. It hasn't any impact on the three "folders" I'm trying to invisibilize. The system won't allow me to rename them .etc, .tmp, and .var so I seem to SOL.
Any other ideas? Voodoo, maybe? There's got to be a way to do this!
Cheers!
Mudge
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