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Most operating systems make this rather trivial to expose, Apple seems to have made it just a tiny bit more difficult… as such, I provide the simple steps here for my own memory as well as your benefit.

Open Terminal…

• Launch Terminal, located at /Applications/Utilities/.
• Type or copy/paste the following commands. Press the return key after you enter each line.

  defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

  killall Finder

WARNING: Be particularly careful about the files you modify or delete, you could impact your system in very critical ways… there is a reason they are ‘hidden’, most often it is to keep less-technical users from breaking things

Return hidden files to their usual state.

Open Terminal…

• Launch Terminal, located at /Applications/Utilities/.
• Type or copy/paste the following commands. Press the return key after you enter each line.

  defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

  killall Finder

Cheers

As many people and businesses have come to depend on Google for their services ‘in the cloud’, it becomes difficult to know what is really going on when something is ‘down’ or unavailable. The following link may prove useful in such cases.

http://www.google.com/appsstatus