Leopard: Hide Your Hard Disk from the Desktop

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon July 20, 2008  
Tag Icon Tagged: Mac OS X Leopard

If you want to hide the Hard Disk icon from your desktop so that you can maintain a clean look, follow this Tech-Recipe.


1. Open Finder.

2. Go to Preferences.

3. Select the General tab.

4. Uncheck the Hard disks checkbox.

5. Close the Preferences window.

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  • Brian
    Um.. i donno why but mac dosen't let me hide the hard disk. Only thing that can be hide is External disks. Does anyone know the solution for this problem T_T?
  • Easter
    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
    I could not for the life of me figure out how to get those off!!!
  • Brian
    If you want to hide just one:
    SetFile -a V "/Volumes/DiskName"

    Use a small V to bring it back:
    SetFile -a v "/Volumes/DiskName"

    You need to restart Finder (or reboot) for the change to be visible. I do this for my TimeMachine/TimeCapsule volumes.
  • Mark
    To Brian:

    SetFile -a V "/Volumes/Bootcamp\ HD"
    -bash: SetFile: command not found

    What's wrong?
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  • Sorry, tools. Developer tools.
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