Widget Watch: hiddenfiles

This is a cool, non-technical way to peer at the invisible files that Apple and 3rd party developers hide from us, usually with good reason, however this widget is not very useful for doing too much more than just that. It disables the Finder, which in turn removes the ability to move within the folder structure which is pretty annoying.

In general, I suppose the purpose of most widgets is for simpler tasks as opposed to full fledged applications.

Hiddenfiles was released back in October. Why is this getting reviewed 6 months later? Not complaining, just more of an observation.

I used Hidden Cleaner (freeware) when I was using a non Apple mp3 player, it deletes all the hidden files before ejecting any removable media of choice:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/34318

Compile this as an Applescript applet. You shouldn't need to restart the Finder. Oh, and no extraneous process running in the background all the time.
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set CurrentSet to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles"
if CurrentSet is "False" then
try
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True"
end try
else
try
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles False"
end try
end if
tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
repeat until (exists application process "Finder")
tell application "Finder" to activate
end repeat
end tell

It is easier if you do it a lot. BTW.. I had an idea. What if you could use a special character before a terminal command to trigger it in the spotlight menu bar item? That would be cool.