Hide Volume in Finder

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Hide Volume in Finder

I followed the instructions here trying to hide some volumes that are on my Finder sidebar & desktop:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080124184544791

When I enter the "SetFile -a V '/Volumes/XXX/' command in Terminal it appears to execute the command (it doesn't give an error message). I then use the killall "Finder" command to restart the finder but the volume still resides in the sidebar and on the desktop.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Mac Pro Quad (Nehalem), Macbook 2 GHz Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6), MP: 640GB,1TB,1.5TB, 6GB, ATI 4870 | MB:120GB,2GB | 3G iPhone

Posted on Apr 25, 2009 8:32 PM

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V.K.

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Apr 25, 2009 9:14 PM in response to skeelo221

you don't need Developer tools and setFile to set a hidden flag.
run the following command in terminal

chflags hidden /volumes/"name of drive"

put the name of the volume you want to hide in the above. KEEP the quotes.
if the command returns an error it means you don't own the volumes. in this case run

sudo chflags hidden /volumes/"name of drive"

you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal. this will hide the drive from finder but not from the sidebar. to remove it from the sidebar drag it off the sidebar.

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skeelo221 Author

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Apr 26, 2009 11:10 PM in response to V.K.

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately I wasn't able to try your suggestion (even though it looks to be a lot simpler!)

After a restart of the computer the drives disappeared from the Finder.

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V.K.

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Apr 27, 2009 6:05 AM in response to skeelo221

skeelo221 wrote:
Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately I wasn't able to try your suggestion (even though it looks to be a lot simpler!)

After a restart of the computer the drives disappeared from the Finder.

that just means your setFile command worked 🙂.

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