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Re: Hide Desktop


  • Subject: Re: Hide Desktop
  • From: Matt Binkowski <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:29:34 -0500

unfortunately i don't know the answer but here's an idea. can you set the
visibility of every file/folder to invisible ( minus the drive)?

on 11/29/01 12:50 PM, Gnarlodious at email@hidden wrote:

> This I discovered by accident:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> quit
> end tell
>
> Works in 9.1, removes all icons from desktop UNTIL you quit all apps, at
> which time the desktop reappears.
>
> Trying to hide my Desktop from voyeurs. Has anyone used this in a security
> script?
>
> Rachel http://www.gnarlodious.com
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