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Re: Hide an Item on Desktop

Subject: Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:10:38 -0500

On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:37 PM, I. Savant wrote:

On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to programmatically hide an single item (e.g. a file or a mounted disk or a directory) from the Desktop?
Rename it so that it starts with a period. "Dot-files" are hidden.

Well, there's also the hidden bit in the file's metadata. It's accessible a number of ways:

chflags(2) with UF_HIDDEN

The kIsInvisible flag of the finderFlags field of the FileInfo and FolderInfo, settable with FSSetCatalogInfo.

The command: /Developer/Tool/SetFile -a V <path>

setattrlist(2) via either ATTR_CMN_FLAGS (analogous to chflags) or ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO (analogous to FSSetCatalogInfo).

Etc.

Cheers,
Ken

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