Show Hidden Files in Dreamweaver

April 13, 2009

Are you tired of not being able to see the .htaccess and other apache files on the server side? No sweat. Let’s just navigate to the Files section in our sidebar.

Click the “Options” icon, and navigate to View > Show Hidden Files.

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  1. Thanks!

    This was very helpful for me!

  2. Yeah thanks, this is the only location for this setting that I know of. I’ve always fired up another ftp client to access a .htaccess file.

  3. Hi mate,

    I was full of hope when I found your post, but the view item in the file menu does not exists in cs4. Sad but, it made me decide to sort this once and for all.

    In the end, I found it, it’s only a simple registry setting change :

    http://www.alicesbiscuit.com/dreamweaver-how-to-view-hidden-files-and-htaccess.html

    Why it’s not accessible easily in DW is beyond me though.

    Take care

  4. Thanks. Needed to access the .htaccess file and couldn’t find how to show the hidden files searching dreamweaver help.

  5. I actually did find a way to do this from within CS4, so you don’t have to modify the registry. (Although that will still work.) It’s not intuitive at all, hidden to the point I almost never noticed it.

    The “Files” tab will be in a “tab group” that has a very tiny button at its far right. It looks like a small downward arrow next to 4 lines. If you click this, a context menu will appear. Choose View -> Show Hidden Files.

    Good luck!

  6. Thank you! The solution for me (Dreamweaver CS4) was to collapse my expanded local/remote file view. Only then did I have access to the options context menu that Funka describes in the above post.

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