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Hidden Files

The Agent can see and access hidden files and folders on host systems.

Unix, Linux, Mac

On Unix, Linux, and Mac based systems, these files and folders are commonly called "dot filesExternal LinkThis link leads to an external website and will open in a new tab" or "dot folders" because they are named with a leading period character.

Users of Remote Mounts can interact with dot files and dot folders.

Syncs that pull from an Agent will also pull dot files and dot folders unless you use the Exclude Pattern of the sync to exclude them.

Windows

On Windows based host systems, by default, the Agent cannot see nor access files or folders that have been hidden using the Hidden (H) file attributeExternal LinkThis link leads to an external website and will open in a new tab.

To override this behavior on Windows based systems, add the following line to the Agent configuration file:

show_hidden_files = true

When the show_hidden_files option is enabled, users of Remote Mounts can interact with hidden files and folders, and Syncs that pull from the Agent also pull hidden files and folders unless you use the Exclude Pattern of the sync to exclude them.