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.