Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- Subject: Re: Hide an Item on Desktop
- From: Maggie Zhang <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:37:52 -0700
Thanks all of you for your answers. I apologize for the unclear question in
the beginning. Let me try to explain it again.
What I want is to hide existing mounted volumes whose names I don't want to
change. Say, I create 20 disk images and mount them all on the desktop but I
want them to be selectively invisible from the Desktop and can still be
accessible (e.g. whose contents can be read or modified.) I also change the
permissions of the mounted items so that they are only accessible to the
owner or root. For example, I may want to copy a file to all of them at the
same time or delete a file from only one of them. In some cases, I don't
need or want to see them on the desktop at all. I wonder if there is a way
to hide those volumes without changing their names. Hopefully this makes the
question a bit more understandable.
MZ
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Dave Camp <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:50 AM, David Patrick Henderson wrote:
>
> Depends on one's definition of "supported". One cannot rename a file or
>> folder in the Finder directly with a leading '.', or a ':'. Attempting to do
>> so will cause warning dialogs for all these cases (and perhaps of which I am
>> unaware). So one can certainly claim that the Finder does not support these
>> cases; however, the Finder will handle these files if created through some
>> other medium such as a terminal program.
>>
>
> It has nothing to do with the Finder "supporting" it. Obviously the Finder
> does not display files starting with dots because it was designed to do so.
> It purposefully hides files that the average user does not need to see.
>
> The Finder won't let you pre-pend a dot to the file because it purposefully
> does not show files that start with a dot. If it let you add the dot, the
> file would suddenly be hidden and a normal user (i.e. someone without
> Terminal knowledge) would have no way of getting it back. It's a safety
> feature.
>
> Dave
>
>
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