Hide 'Movies' Folder

[Motokid]

Is there a way to hide the 'Movies' folder for a user? I'm using an external hard drive to store my movies and have an alias in the home folder and can't remove the original movies folder. Is there a way to just hide a folder from view?

 

[Denarius]

Is there a way to hide the 'Movies' folder for a user? I'm using an external hard drive to store my movies and have an alias in the home folder and can't remove the original movies folder. Is there a way to just hide a folder from view?

I've got no way of trying this as I don't want to remove my own movies folder, but have you tried this in Terminal? Note that this removes it entirely, it doesn't hide it.

sudo rm -rf ~/Movies

To hide it you could do.

sudo mv ~/Movies ~/.Movies

The dot in front makes it invisible in OS X

 

[calderone]

You can also set the hidden flag:

chflags hidden /path/to/folder

You should also considering changing permissions on the folder, however, note that any admin user can enable the "ignore ownership for this volume" option for an external volume.