Windows 10: Is there a way to hide or get rid of the " __MACOSX " folder?

I work in a photography studio. Due to my job, I regularly receive and process a large number of photos from our customers. Our customers are generally photographers and on average half of these customers work on their photos with Apple MacOsx systems and send them to me. Naturally, due to the structure of macosx, there is a folder called __MACOSX in the folders they send like Microsoft's Thumbs.dll in the past and it stores a mini image of each photo in this folder. If the extension of the file in this folder was not the same as the extension of the main file, I would not have a problem. Ho

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Temporarily hide a folder

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand that you want to hide photos while working on Photos app, In order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly, we would need some information.

1. Are you aware of any recent changes made on your PC?
2. What is the version and build of you operating system? In the
   Search box, type winver
   to get this info.

Since it takes a while for the folder to re-populate after removal from the Photos app, I have found a work around to hide the folder from Photos app by changing the hidden attributes.



Follow the steps to hide the Photo/ folder.

1. Right click on the Photo/ folder.
   
2. Select properties.
   
3. Check Hidden under General tab and hit apply
   
4. The photo will be temporally hidden from photos app.
   

To unhide the Photo/ folder refer the below steps.

1. Click on files explorer.
   
2. Select the View tab and check Hidden items to view the Photo/folder
   
3. Right click on the Photo/folder
   
4. Select properties, Uncheck Hidden and click on apply.
   
5. The Photo will re-appear in the Photos app.
   

Thanks,

Suman.B

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Hide or Show User Profile's Personal Folders in Navigation Pane

Hello Brink and thank you. This website is a very helpful resource.

Your suggested answer will hide the User Profile folder in the Navigation Pane.

Instead, this scenario involves not hiding the User Profile folder but hiding specific Personal Folders in the Navigation Pane that are marked "Hidden" in the Files/Folders Listing Area.

My suspicion is that there are more "PinToNamespace" registry entries for me to toggle the DWORD value.

 

Locking/Hiding Folders.

O, Im hiding the ummm......."Stuff other people don't need to know about" folder. *Stick Out Tongue