I'm seeking a way to make my external hard drive appear as an internal drive. This drive is permanently hooked up and I don't want its icon on the desktop blending in with whatever temporary external drives I may have hooked up at the moment (and yes, I do want flash drives to always appear on the desktop). It's an OCD affair. Thanks.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Mid 2011 iMac 27" 3.1ghz i5 12gb
Select any one of the internal drives, choose Get Info from the File menu, click on its icon, copy that, and paste it onto that drive. Alternatively, you can give that drive a color label in the File menu.
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Thanks Niel. I immediately see that I was unclear. I'm seeking to eliminate only that drive's icon from the desktop completely. I use the desktop as a sort of inbox so if I see an icon on the desktop, I feel that I should be doing something with it. But I certainly don't want to remove any other external drives from the desktop so disabling Show External Disks on Desktop is not a preferable option.
This is my first permanent external drive as I just eliminated my server. I've scoured the internet to no avail. Thanks again.
Choose Utilities from the Finder’s Go menu, open the AppleScript Editor, paste the four lines below into it, and run the script:
tell application "Finder" to quit
do shell script "chflags hidden '/Volumes/volumename/'"
delay 2
tell application "Finder" to run
replacing volumename with the drive's name. To undo this, replace hidden with nohidden.
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Thanks for your help. This script also hides the drive from the sidebar, but I can deal with that as this drive is just a 1:1 clone of my internal drive and I can see it just fine from SuperDuper. Much appreciated.
Force an external hard drive to appear as an internal drive
