Is it possible to hide drive icons on the desktop for different logins?

BiikeMike

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Original poster

• Apr 17, 2007

• #1

Say I have an external drive with 5 partitions that I don't want to show up on my Fiancee's login. Can I get them off the desktop? I don't care if she can get to them through windows, but she does not need them on the desktop.

Thanks 🙂

 

Raid

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• Apr 17, 2007

• #2

BiikeMike said:

Say I have an external drive with 5 partitions that I don't want to show up on my Fiancee's login. Can I get them off the desktop? I don't care if she can get to them through windows, but she does not need them on the desktop.

Thanks 🙂

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There's a preference setting that will remove all drives from the desktop, but I go there so seldomly that I don't know where it is... I guess the first place I'd check is the 'view' menu in the finder... but I'm pretty sure it's in the System Preferences somewhere. Man I hate working on windows machine, I'm sure I'd find it in about 20 seconds if I had OS X up infront of me.

 

dejo

Moderator emeritus

• Apr 17, 2007

• #3

Finder > Preferences > Show these items on the Desktop

 

BiikeMike

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Apr 17, 2007

• #4

dejo said:

Finder > Preferences > Show these items on the Desktop

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Interesting, the External partitions show up under CDs, DVDs, and ipods. I wonder why that is. So that sucks, I can't hide all that stuff!

 

synth3tik

macrumors 68040

• Apr 17, 2007

• #5

sadly it's all or non. I would really like to hide just my back up frives.