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I don't know who these files belong to, but I'm afraid deleting them might cause something to break. How do I hide these files and folders so that they do not appear in Nautilus, but they are accessible by Windows, if they belong to it.

I have seen some guides where each file and folder to be hidden is prepended by a period (.), but that would change the file name, which may or may not break something.

Eliah Kagan
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Rafay
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These look like the relatively new Windows bootlader files. You're right that you shouldn't rename them, e.g. by inserting a dot before the name in order to hide them under Linux.

To hide otherwise in a GUI way, you can install Nautilus Actions Extra by first adding the repository using these terminal commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nae-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update

You can then install Nautilus Actions Extra using this command:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions-extra

You can install nautilus-hide only instead of the whole package using this terminal command:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-hide

Finally, you'll get (Un)Hide option in Nautilus context menu to hide any folder(s) and/or file(s) selected after restarting Nautilus with this terminal command:

nautilus -q
Sadi
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