Have you noticed that every once and a while a "Desktop Folder" folder will appear on one of your hard drive partitions. You delete this Mac OS 9 relic only to see it reappear again in the future. What causes it to be created I am not sure of, but I did find a way to make it permanently disappear.
The folder needs to be marked as invisible. I used the "Get File/Folder Info" menu item in ResEdit to do this. The problem is that ResEdit does not display the "Desktop Folder" in the open dialog box. It's there, you can see it in the Finder, but ResEdit filters it out. The trick is to make an alias of the "Desktop Folder". Then select "Get File/Folder Info" in ResEdit, and you can select the alias. When you open it, it will open the actual "Desktop Folder." Now check the "invisible" checkbox and save changes. Log out and log back in and the "Desktop Folder" folder will no longer appear. It's still there, it's just invisible.
The folder needs to be marked as invisible. I used the "Get File/Folder Info" menu item in ResEdit to do this. The problem is that ResEdit does not display the "Desktop Folder" in the open dialog box. It's there, you can see it in the Finder, but ResEdit filters it out. The trick is to make an alias of the "Desktop Folder". Then select "Get File/Folder Info" in ResEdit, and you can select the alias. When you open it, it will open the actual "Desktop Folder." Now check the "invisible" checkbox and save changes. Log out and log back in and the "Desktop Folder" folder will no longer appear. It's still there, it's just invisible.
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