On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
What I want is to hide existing mounted volumes whose names I don't
want to change.
Setting the HFS "invisible" bit is the way to go, then. I've done this
before. You can do this from the command line:
SetFile -a V /Volumes/HideMe
D
This will be the POSIX spec, not an Apple one.
OSX has been POSIX compliant since Leopard, accoring to this page:
http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/osfoundations.html
paulm
On 10/10/2009, at 8:23 AM, Michael Domino wrote:
M Pulis wrote:
Unless you can absolutely prove that your f
M Pulis wrote:
> Unless you can absolutely prove that your file fits Apple specs for a
> legitimately installed "dot" system file that is not the best practice
> to make a non-system file invisible. Seek an alternative. There are temp
> directories and other legit facilities.
Can someone point ou
Thanks Dave. I will give that a try.
MZ
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Dave Carrigan wrote:
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
>
> What I want is to hide existing mounted volumes whose names I don't want
>> to
>> change. Say, I create 20 disk images and mount them all on the
On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
What I want is to hide existing mounted volumes whose names I don't
want to
change. Say, I create 20 disk images and mount them all on the
desktop but I
want them to be selectively invisible from the Desktop and can still
be
accessible (e.g
Thanks all of you for your answers. I apologize for the unclear question in
the beginning. Let me try to explain it again.
What I want is to hide existing mounted volumes whose names I don't want to
change. Say, I create 20 disk images and mount them all on the desktop but I
want them to be selec
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:50 AM, David Patrick Henderson wrote:
Depends on one's definition of "supported". One cannot rename a file
or folder in the Finder directly with a leading '.', or a ':'.
Attempting to do so will cause warning dialogs for all these cases
(and perhaps of which I am unawar
On 09 Oct 2009, at 03:44, I. Savant wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:18 PM, M Pulis wrote:
Please do not advise this hack. It is not supported by the Finder.
Wrong.
Depends on one's definition of "supported". One cannot rename a file
or folder in the Finder directly with a leading '.', or a
On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:00 AM, M Pulis wrote:
Following trends, it is easy to imagine a future Desktop becoming an
increasingly protected space. One thing I have learned in 25 years
is never underestimate Apple's ability to change and force our world
to recompile. 10.6 just killed off an entir
On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:18 PM, M Pulis wrote:
Please do not advise this hack. It is not supported by the Finder.
Wrong.
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On 9/10/2009, at 2:51 PM, M Pulis wrote:
Naming a file with leading period is THE traditional unix way of making
a file less visible
to the casual observer. OSX is based on unix.
(Actually, isnt OSX the most widely used OS legally able to use the
name 'Unix'?)
The dialog message above i
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Dave Carrigan wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:51 PM, M Pulis posted a screen capture of a
finder error.
That's just the finder being nice to the non-techies. The longer "if
you name this with a dot then you'll have to hit a special key
combination in order to see
Dave Carrigan wrote:
That's just the finder being nice to the non-techies. The longer
"if you name this with a dot then you'll have to hit a special key
combination in order to see it" explanation is more confusing and
unnecessary. It certainly doesn't mean that .files are not allowed
or
On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:51 PM, M Pulis posted a screen capture of a
finder error.
That's just the finder being nice to the non-techies. The longer "if
you name this with a dot then you'll have to hit a special key
combination in order to see it" explanation is more confusing and
unnecessar
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On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM, M Pulis wrote:
Please do not advise this hack. It is not supported by the Finder.
Erm? The Finder very much supports not displaying dot files. And
open/save dialogs even support toggling their display (Cmd-Op
Dot files have been used by many program, for many years, in all UNIX
based systems, for all kinds of reasons. To claim that they are
"reserved for the system" is patently false. Just cd around your file
system and try a few "ls -a" 's here and there.
What has "being supported by the finder
M Pulis wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:37 PM, I. Savant wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to programmatically hide an single
item
(e.g. a file or a mounted disk or a directory) from the Desktop?
Rename it so that it starts with a period
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM, M Pulis wrote:
> Please do not advise this hack. It is not supported by the Finder.
Erm? The Finder very much supports not displaying dot files. And
open/save dialogs even support toggling their display (Cmd-Opt-. I
believe?)
> The Finder does not show nor allow
On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:37 PM, I. Savant wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to programmatically hide an
single item
(e.g. a file or a mounted disk or a directory) from the Desktop?
Rename it so that it starts with a period. "Dot-files" a
On Thursday, October 8, 2009, Ken Thomases
> Well, there's also the hidden bit in the file's metadata. It's accessible a
> number of ways:
>
I thought I read somewhere that this isn't always honored. At the
least it's not supported on all file systems, I don't believe. Cant
find references, t
On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:37 PM, I. Savant wrote:
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to programmatically hide an
single item
(e.g. a file or a mounted disk or a directory) from the Desktop?
Rename it so that it starts with a period. "Dot-files" ar
On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Maggie Zhang wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to programmatically hide an single
item
(e.g. a file or a mounted disk or a directory) from the Desktop?
Rename it so that it starts with a period. "Dot-files" are hidden.
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Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to programmatically hide an single item
(e.g. a file or a mounted disk or a directory) from the Desktop?
Thanks!
MZ
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