I place data with higher volumes - example films and music - on my SD card because the internal SSD of my Macbook Pro has not so much storage.
I like it clean in the structure of files and folders in the finder.
Therefore I want to hide the system folders "films" and "music" in the finder, because they are empty and I don't need them.
How can I do that please?
Thanks.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13)
It looks like your Documents folder lost the little info that tells the Finder to "localize" it. This is a small (actually, empty) file inside this folder, called ".localized"
To change Documents to Dokumente:
1) Open Terminal
2) Type or copy and paste the following lines, in order;
cd ~/Documents
touch .localized
3) Quit Terminal and restart the Finder, or log out and back in. It should be working correctly now.
Actually, I *did* try, and it works :-)
To reverse it:
chflags nohidden ~/Movies
chflags nohidden ~/Music
They can't be deleted, but *maybe* they can be hidden (though I haven't tried; I will let you do the experiment).
In the Terminal, copy and paste each of the following:
chflags hidden ~/Movies
chflags hidden ~/Music
OnyX can change the location where screenshots are saved.
If you use OnyX, be sure to download the appropriate version for your OS. The site contains versions that work, I think, for OS versions since Jaguar (that is 10.2...)
It can be done in Terminal also.
Open Terminal and paste the following text - without the quotes but WITH the trailing space!
Do NOT press enter yet.
"defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "
Now drag the desired folder from the Finder to the Terminal (its full name will add to the above line - for example it may look like this:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/lsequeir/Desktop/Screenshots
)
and press enter.
Log out and log back in and you're set.
thulium wrote:
@Luis
Is there anything what you don't know about macOS? 🙂
Actually, there is a lot 😁
For example, I didn't know this one about the localization.
I thought it was done in a different way, but some guy named Google pointed me to the right direction 😊
Just as a little note:
I sent a feedback to Apple with the wish to save screenshots automatically inside the Photos.app.
Why?
Screenshots in the iOS are saved inside the Photos.app.
It is not consistent when they are saved at another place in macOS.
I found a workaround with Apple scripts for the task. To complicated for me.
May be someone of you likes my suggestion and wants to send an additional feedback to Apple.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html
@Luis
Worked perfectly. Thanks a lot 🙂
Now I have very clean user directory 🙂
Applications
Documents
Downloads
Dropbox
Ebooks
Emags
Recipes
Like it a lot!
I hid Pictures as well. The photos app works fine.
And the terminal commands even work, when I use the english terms. No need to use the localized german terms for the folders.
Further Questions:
Is there a GUI-Tool to change the path where screenshots are saved automatically. Than I could even hide the desktop, because typically I never use it to store data.
Independent of that:
From an earlier "customization" around system folders of the user directory I had the effect, that my folder with documents is named as "Documents" and not, what would be correct on my system with an UI in german language, "Dokumente".
How can I change that please?
Note:
May be in the future Apple will decide, that it will be possible to save specific folders in the icloud drive - without moving them to the "folder" "icloud drive". And may be they will allow to share folders to others.
Than, and only than, I can get rid of Dropbox.
Than thanks for your time, Luis, that you even searched for the solution. So friendly!
My English is - unfortunately - quite poor. Therefore it is often extremly hard to find solutions via Google, specially in fields, where I don't know the correct terms.
Have a good day! 🙂
@Luis
I tried Onyx (a version for High Sierra exists) and it worked perfectly. Screenshots will be saved now at the place I like.
Thanks 🙂
And of course I hid the system folder "Desktop" now from my user directory. May be I'm the only one in the world who did that weird customization.
I never expected, that it is possible to get such a "clean" user directory, free of everything, I do not use regularly.
@Luis
I tried Onyx (a version for High Sierra exists) and it worked perfectly. Screenshots will be saved now at the place I like.
Thanks
And of course I hid the system folder "Desktop" now from my user directory. May be I'm the only one in the world who did that weird customization.
I never expected, that it is possible to get such a "clean" user directory, free of everything, I do not use regularly.
@Luis
I tried Onyx (a version for High Sierra exists) and it worked perfectly. Screenshots will be saved now at the place I like.
Thanks 🙂
And of course I hid the system folder "Desktop" now from my user directory. May be I'm the only one in the world who did that weird customization.
I never expected, that it is possible to get such a "clean" user directory, free of everything, I do not use regularly.
@Luis
I tried Onyx (a version for High Sierra exists) and it worked perfectly. Screenshots will be saved now at the place I like.
Thanks 🙂
And of course I hid the system folder "Desktop" now from my user directory. May be I'm the only one in the world who did that weird customization.
I never expected, that it is possible to get such a "clean" user directory, free of everything, I do not use regularly.
@Luis
I tried Onyx (a version for High Sierra exists) and it worked perfectly. Screenshots will be saved now at the place I like.
Thanks.
And of course I hid the system folder "Desktop" now from my user directory. May be I'm the only one in the world who did that weird customization.
I never expected, that it is possible to get such a "clean" user directory, free of everything, I do not use regularly.
@Luis
I tried Onyx (a version for High Sierra exists) and it worked perfectly. Screenshots will be saved now at the place I like.
Thanks.
And of course I hid the system folder "Desktop" now from my user directory. May be I'm the only one in the world who did that weird customization.
I never expected, that it is possible to get such a "clean" user directory, free of everything, I do not use regularly.
Is it a case of wanting to remove them from the sidebar in finder. Finder> Preferences> Sidebar and uncheck the folders you don't want to appear.
If you want to delete the folders that appear in your Users/Home folder Movies, Pictures, Music etc, they can't be deleted, the system won't allow it.
How to hide system folders "Films" and "Music" in the Finder?
