Re: Making CD invisible
Re: Making CD invisible
- Subject: Re: Making CD invisible
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:50:39 -0400
Preschoolers with iPods, wow. What's the world coming to? :). But
chances are even then all they would need is for iTunes to see them.
I don't think I've ever used my iPod from the Finder.
USB keys are more likely to be a concern; shame that Finder setting
doesn't distinguish among different types of removable media.
- Original message -
But the icons will then re-appear when you...
On 7/17/07, Jakob Peterhänsel <email@hidden> wrote:
But the icons will then re-appear when you set the setting back, right?
And then iPods and USB keys will not show, so that might confuse the
K-4 user even more.. ?
I would go with moving the icons offscreen as mentioned by Ken.
Although, what about the Sidebar in Finder windows???
Jakob Peterhänsel
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On 16/07/2007, at 19.26, Matt Deatherage wrote:
> On 7/16/07 at 11:48 AM, Mike Smith <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I have looked through man hdiutil and haven't found anything about
>> making it invisible. Perhaps someone will see this and have the
>> answer
>> (I hope!)...
>
> Contrary to oft-mentioned wisdom on this list, "do shell script" is
> *not* the answer to all problems.
>
> tell application "Finder"
> tell Finder preferences
> set desktop shows removable media to false
> end tell
> end tell
>
> Set it back to "true" to make them show up again. This is the same
> thing as manipulating the second checkbox in Finder > Preferences >
> General ("Show these items on the Desktop: CDs, DVDs, and iPods"), and
> takes effect immediately. Set it before you mount the disk image,
> which
> is "removable media," and the icon won't show up on the desktop at
> all.
>
> --Matt
>
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