Comments on: OS X: Hide Your Hard Disk from the Desktop

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:28:00 +0000

Cool! Glad you figured it out.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:29:00 +0000

Hi David. I found the problem. It was me. Not being computer knowledgeable
at all unfortunately, I mistook one information pane for another; that, and one other piece of information about how the desktop works, cleared things up. Sorry to have taken your time! Thanks for your help. Arnold

By: Arnold

Arnold — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:10:00 +0000

OK David, I will. Arnold

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:52:00 +0000

Let us know if you figure it out. If you are having the problem, others might be as well.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:33:00 +0000

Hi David. Thanks for your reply. The only thing I can think of is that my preference panel set up must be because of some unknown preference
set-up for the panel. I’ll look into this to see if this may be possible.
Arnold

By: David Kirk - Founder/Editor

David Kirk - Founder/Editor — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:22:00 +0000

Sorry, Arnold. This method continues to work on all the versions of OS X that I have here. I even just tested it for OS X Lion. I even updated the article to show a screenshot from the new OS.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:42:00 +0000

Thank you for your information. I’ve attempted to do what you described at the top of this page, but I was blocked. When I went to the preferences panel and clicked on the general tab, among other differenced there was no ’show these items on the desktop’ heading, no list. Despite hours of looking on the internet for clarification, going to many sites, I got no where. The sites that gave the same procedure as you gave above all referred to the same preference panel, etc. Why is it so hard so many times to fix extremely simple things on the computer!!!!! I have an Mac OS X, version 10.5.8 Thank you for any help. Sincerely, Arnych

By: Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:02:00 +0000

No need to restart, Just Relaunch Finder…

By: Richard Chen

Richard Chen — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:12:00 +0000

Thank you. My 2-year-old managed to do this (or some equivalent), and I couldn’t figure out how to reverse it.

By: Arvivi

Arvivi — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:11:00 +0000

Great help, thanks!