Button to disable all "hide" filters?

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Hello,

Is there a button that no matter what setting is hiding something, hitting this button will show all files? If my status bar is showing "12 hidden", I hit the button, those 12 files are now showing.

Thanks,
Rich

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There's the Clear Local Name Filters button in the menu 5th from the right.

That doesn't affect the show/hide System of Hidden files options (which are in the menu just above if you need to toggle them as well).

It also doesn't affect the global filter in Preferences / Folders / Folder Display, if you've turned that on (it's off by default). You can create a button to toggle it with Set GLOBALHIDEFILTER=Toggle if you need to.

You could combine all of those things into a single button that turns off all filters, but since some of them are global settings you'd then have to turn the ones you usually want back on.

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Set GLOBALHIDEFILTER=Toggle works for toggling "Enable global wildcard filters". Is there one that will also do "Hide protected operating system files"?

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Please tell us if this solves your problem:
Re: Hidden Files (by plunder ยป 19 May 2011, 02:19)

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Yes, there's already a command to do that on the Show System Files menu item, above the Clear Local Name Filters item.

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@plunder: Thanks. That did it partially. Plus the button was confusing and I couldn't edit it after I pasted.

@Leo: Sorry, I had that "default" menu toolbar turned off. Once I figured out where it was I finally found what you were talking about. Got what I wanted with a button that toggles all three iteam's:

"Enable global wildcard filters"
"Hide hidden files"
"Hide protected operating system files"

With these lines of code:

Set GLOBALHIDEFILTER=Toggle
Set GLOBALHIDEHIDDEN=Toggle INVERT
Set HIDESYSTEMFILES=Toggle INVERT

Is there a place where things like GLOBALHIDEFILTER are listed so I know what I have to work with? I didn't find it in v9 or v10 online help file.

Second question that goes beyond the original need. Can I also toggle the "Hide filter" that is associated with a "Path Format" (under Pref -> Folders -> Folder Formats -> Path Formats -> Edit -> Filters tab)?

Thanks