The Agent can see and access hidden files and folders on host systems.

Unix, Linux, Mac

On Unix, Linux and Mac based systems, these types of files and folders are commonly referred to as "dot files" or "dot folders" due to being named with a leading period character.

Users of Remote Mounts will be able to interact with dot files and dot folders.

Remote Syncs that pull from an Agent will also pull dot files and dot folders unless you use the Exclude Pattern of the sync to exclude them.

Windows

On Windows based host systems, by default, the Agent cannot see nor access files or folders that have been hidden using the Hidden (H) file attribute.

To override this behavior on Windows based systems, add the following line to the Agent configuration file:

show_hidden_files = true

When the show_hidden_files option is enabled, users of Remote Mounts will be able to interact with hidden files and folders and Remote Syncs that pull from the Agent will also pull hidden files and folders unless you use the Exclude Pattern of the sync to exclude them.