On my desktop I have an external drive name 4TB_Drive. On the same desktop I have a backup drive for the first one named 4TB_Drive_BU. I'd like to hide the icon to prevent accidentally accessing and changing files there, having it still be accessible to my backup software
When I try and use the routine "chflags hidden" method, I get a "Permissions Denied" response. All permissions for the drive are R/W.
Any suggestions?
Best Answer
You can hide all external disks from the desktop by opening Finder → Preferences → General and unchecking External disks. Then you can add aliases on the Desktop to the disks you do want shown.