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$\begingroup$ On a mac, the terminal does away with the "hiding" shenanigans. Learn to use your lappy like a pro. Use the terminal. $\endgroup$
– ncmathsadist
Commented Apr 6, 2019 at 1:06
$\begingroup$ I was always uncomfortable with that word 'terminal'. Sounds dangerous. Of course, throughout the medical field 'negative' is a good thing. Photography used to be like that, alas. Now I have trouble even seeing the "dark chamber" it is so small. $\endgroup$
– Scott Rowe
Commented Oct 1, 2021 at 10:19
$\begingroup$ The ‘tree’ command (not always installed by default) can be helpful for visualizing directory structures on the command line. For GUIs, tools like DaisyDisk or WinDirStat have interesting visualizations. $\endgroup$
– Jim Grisham
Commented Feb 19, 2022 at 5:44

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