Find and Unhide all Hidden Files Using PowerShell
This PowerShell one-liner will find all hidden files and folders in the current directory and turn off the Hidden attribute:
Get-ChildItem -Force -Recurse | Where-Object{($_.Attributes.ToString().Split(“, “) -contains “Hidden”) -and ($_.Name -ne “thumbs.db”) -and ($_.Name -notlike “~*”) -and ($_.Name -ne “desktop.ini”) -and ($_.Name -ne “folder.ico”)} | foreach {$_.Attributes = “Archive”}
I deliberately wrote this to skip thumbs.db, desktop.ini, folder.ico and Microsoft Office temporary files, because there are very few scenarios in which I would want to unhide those. If you want to include them, just remove that qualifier from the Where-Object statement.
Hello Jay.
I want to thank you for your short script, it saved my life. I thought had lost all my backup, but it was hidden!
And with this script i was able to remove the hidden property and make the files visible again.
Thanks again.
Best Regards,
Carlos.
Hi, I just add a write-host to show the fullname of the hidden file being mdified.
Get-ChildItem -Force -Recurse | Where-Object{($_.Attributes.ToString().Split(“, “) -contains “Hidden”) -and ($_.Name -ne “thumbs.db”) -and ($_.Name -notlike “~*”) -and ($_.Name -ne “desktop.ini”) -and ($_.Name -ne “folder.ico”)} | foreach {$_.Attributes = “Archive”; Write-Host $_.FullName}