Icon files showing in OS X Finder

Question

I have a bunch of Icon files showing in my Finder. I believe these are supposed to be hidden, I think it may be related to a terminal command I ran across my file system for another issue but now I have this side-effect.

How can I ensure all existing and future "Icon" files are hidden?

Finder Icon Files

This may provide some information http://superuser.com/questions/298785/icon-file-on-os-x-desktop — Simon Sheehan, Jun 13 '16 at 20:16
Just ran find / -name Icon^M -exec chflags hidden {} \; as root. Hopefully my filesystem is ok. — Dave, Jun 14 '16 at 22:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '16 at 17:24

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You probably ran this command at some point to show all hidden files in Finder

 defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder

So to undo this, simply run this command

 defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE; killall Finder

Note that the restart of Finder using killall is required to affect this change since the value is only read during Finder's startup.

answered Jun 09 '16 at 17:24

SaxDaddy

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Thanks but that didn't fix the problem, I applied the command and Icon files still show after rebooting. – Dave Jun 12 '16 at 01:13

Icon files showing in OS X Finder

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