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Hide the Mac OS 9 Desktop Folder
Authored by: helicine on Feb 19, '04 11:12:12AM

you can do this w/o the help of ResEdit in OSX, just open a console and type:

sudo pico /.hidden

enter your password, pico will open the file. just add Desktop Folder to the list (I think it is there by default in OSX, but I could be wrong), save your changes and exit pico

then restart the finder (or logout and then log back in) and it will be hidden.



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Hide the Mac OS 9 Desktop Folder
Authored by: geohar on Feb 19, '04 03:39:12PM
If you have developer tools, you can use

/Developer/Tools/SetFile -aV /Volumes/<the-drive>/Desktop\ Folder


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