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There are several ways how to toggle hidden files - via a shell command, or AppleScript, or Automator action, or even a Dashboard widget. All of them close and reopen Finder windows, which is quite annoying.
On the other hand, for the Open File dialog one can easily toggle hidden files by pressing Command+Shift+Period
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Is it possible to avoid relaunching Finder?
Conclusion
It is better to use Path Finder instead, which allows not only to toggle hidden files without a perversion, but many other nice things. Really awesome app.
2The "theoretical" part of the question kind of made this argumentative (and hence subject to be closed), unless some Apple engineer happens to be reading this. I like the rest of the question though, so I removed those words. I guess the answer is currently "no", as probably Finder reads this setting when it's started. But that's an argumentative answer, so let's hope for an answer that says "yes, ..." – Arjan – 2010-05-08T16:01:37.997
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Too bad. Accepting the "no" also ensures the Community user will never poke this question, to bump it onto the front page every now and then...
– Arjan – 2010-05-09T15:11:48.787Ok, good point. Let's leave some hope – Andrei – 2010-05-09T15:27:49.253