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 10:53:07 -0700
Thanks Dave. I will give that a try.
MZ
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Dave Carrigan <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
>
> 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.)
>>
>
> If you use the nowbrowse option in either mount or hdiutil, it hides them
> from the finder. It also hides them from things such as open or save
> dialogs, but you can still access them with filesystem APIs.
>
> You have to plan to do this before the volume is mounted. To my knowledge,
> there is no way to do this after a volume has been mounted.
>
>
> --
> Dave Carrigan
> email@hidden
> Seattle, WA, USA
>
>
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