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How can I hide folders without changing their names?

I want to hide some folders that I don't really want to hide all those folders that I don't use. Since system is using them I can't really rename them to add . in front of them. Is there any other way?

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For hiding things in Nautilus (and maybe other graphical browsers) when you can't rename, you can create a file called .hidden in the current directory and list the paths you don't want shown.

For example if I have a direcory with subdirectories {a..f} and a .hidden containing:

b
c

ls -l shows everything still:

drwxr-xr-x 2 oli oli 4096 2011-06-29 23:02 a
drwxr-xr-x 2 oli oli 4096 2011-06-29 23:02 b
drwxr-xr-x 2 oli oli 4096 2011-06-29 23:02 c
drwxr-xr-x 2 oli oli 4096 2011-06-29 23:02 d
drwxr-xr-x 2 oli oli 4096 2011-06-29 23:02 e
drwxr-xr-x 2 oli oli 4096 2011-06-29 23:02 f

But Nautilus only shows:

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  • I found a problem for myself. I cannot create .hidden file inside root directory because it is saying that I don't have permission, although I am logged as admin. What can I do? – sed Jun 29 '11 at 22:17
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    Ah, I did some research and did it in terminal, thanks for your help! – sed Jun 29 '11 at 22:29