Mac OS X 10.5: Hide the Time Machine drive
I have two drives on my Mac and I wanted to hide the Time Machine drive. I have no need to access this drive and I wanted a cleaner desktop. I found some information online that lead me to a good method to perform the task.
Open the Finder preference window and uncheck the box “Hard disks” in the “Show these items on the Desktop:”
This will hide all of the drives on your system. To create a link to your Mac hard drive, we will create a symbolic link on your desktop to the mounted volume location. This is much simpler than that sounded.
Fire up the terminal and enter the following command…
ln -s /Volumes/Leopard ~/Desktop/Leopard
Of course, you should change “Leopard” to the name of your hard drive. If you have spaces in your hard drive name, include the operands in single quotes. For example…
ln -s '/Volumes/My Computer' '~/Desktop/My Computer'
This is a per user setting.
Many thanks to Zoomie on InsanelyMac for the idea!
ln -s ‘/Volumes/Macintosh HD’ ‘~/Desktop/Macintosh HD’ doesn’t work for me. I get: ln: ~/Desktop/Macintosh HD: No such file or directory
Locker,
the name ‘Macintosh HD’ is the name of your hard drive. If you have changed this from the standard install, you will need modify the command.
If your hard drive has a name that includes a space, such as Macintosh HD, you have to use \ to tell Terminal to accept the space as part of the name.
ln -s /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD ~/Desktop/Macintosh\ HD
I made a small program that will let you show or hide individual hard drives on the Mac desktop. It is designed for OS X 10.5 or higher. Note: It not only hides it from the desktop but hides it from finder so any hidden drives will not show up at all in finder but you can still open them from the terminal if you need to or you can make them unhidden again with the program.
I do not have a web based file sharing account so this is torrent link. You must have a Demonoid account to download it. Once you download it feel free to re-up it to a web based account and provide the link so that more people can have access to it.
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1937786/6774360/
Thx, DXS
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@DemonXstreeM
Great work DSX. But please can you get in touch, I would really like to try out your app, or what is the name for it, maybe I can find a regular torrent elsewhere.
All the best.
Michael