Resolved How to hide a specific drive from desktop?

[Akarin]

Hi all,

I've been searching without any luck about how to accomplish this simple task:

I have an external hard drive with 3 partitions on it, A, B and C. On the desktop, I see A, B and C drives but how do I hide (or remove from desktop) drive B? I know I can eject it but it's a bit of a hassle to eject it each time I plug the hard drive or boot my Mac. Any way to do this?

Thank you!

 

[t0n3s]

Howdy

There seems to be a few ways to do this, you can take your pick depending on what you actually need or use the partition for.

1. You can use Applescript to add a period prefix onto the drive name, hiding it from Finder.

tell application "Finder"
	set name of disk "Untitled" to ".Untitled"
	quit
	delay 1
	launch
end tell

2. You can use Terminal to change the flag attribute to make it hidden.

chflags hidden "/Volumes/Untitled"
chflags nohidden "/Volumes/Untitled"

3. You can turn off the functionality to display external hard drives on the desktop and simply have shortcut icons for the ones you do want access to.

Changing attributes means you may have to restart the Finder app and the format of the partition will need to be Mac specific.

Good-luck.

 

[Akarin]

Thank you very much for these solutions... Exactly what I was looking for. I'll go with solution n°2.

 

[ZipZap]

#2 does not hide the desktop icon

 

[Alessandro]

#2 does not hide the desktop icon

Actually, it does, but you must relaunch the Finder with this command:

killall Finder

 

[kevinr621]

Thanks!

Works Perfectly

 

[Mac&Coke]

Howdy

There seems to be a few ways to do this, you can take your pick depending on what you actually need or use the partition for.

1. You can use Applescript to add a period prefix onto the drive name, hiding it from Finder.

tell application "Finder"
    set name of disk "Untitled" to ".Untitled"
    quit
    delay 1
    launch
end tell

2. You can use Terminal to change the flag attribute to make it hidden.

chflags hidden "/Volumes/Untitled"
chflags nohidden "/Volumes/Untitled"

3. You can turn off the functionality to display external hard drives on the desktop and simply have shortcut icons for the ones you do want access to.

Changing attributes means you may have to restart the Finder app and the format of the partition will need to be Mac specific.

Good-luck.

Trying to do this with a windows volume , I installed a separate drive about a month ago just for windows but having a permission issue, was curious if you had any ideas without corrupting windows volume permission =)

Here is what i get when i enter terminal cmd , chflags hidden "volume here"

chflags: /Volumes/Untitled: Read-only file system

 

[ThD39s5sty6uw56]

chflags hidden "/Volumes/Untitled"

Not quite resolved for me I'm afraid. I did this a while back with a network drive and it worked very well. Today however I tried it with my Time Machine backup drive which I don't really want to look at every day, and was told that I lack permissions to hide it.

I am logged in as an administrator.

 

[joelc777]

chflags hidden "/Volumes/Untitled"

Not quite resolved for me I'm afraid. I did this a while back with a network drive and it worked very well. Today however I tried it with my Time Machine backup drive which I don't really want to look at every day, and was told that I lack permissions to hide it.

I am logged in as an administrator.

I also got this message, but I typed "sudo !!" without the quotes and I was able to type in my password and then "killall Finder" to see the desired result. You could also type sudo chflags hidden "/Volums/Untitled" to get the same result

 

[archiegodfrey]

Trying to do this with a windows volume , I installed a separate drive about a month ago just for windows but having a permission issue, was curious if you had any ideas without corrupting windows volume permission =)

Here is what i get when i enter terminal cmd , chflags hidden "volume here"

chflags: /Volumes/Untitled: Read-only file system

Did you find out how to do this as I've encountered the same problem? I'm trying this cmd,
sudo SetFile -a V /Volumes/"Drive Name"
with "killall finder" but am being prompted to download some developer tools called Xcode from the store. However this file is 5.5gb! Ill let you know if it works....

Ive tried it with the above cmd but get this .......
ERROR: Write Permissions Error. (-61) on file: /Volumes/BootCamp

Its a Windows external boot disk. I take it, its the EFI partition thats preventing this?

 

[Tech198]

don't even need action script. Just found out this myself.

 

[adonis3k]

Howdy

chflags hidden "/Volumes/Untitled"
chflags nohidden "/Volumes/Untitled"

Works a treat this, thanks!