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Aug 4, 2006, 12:08 PM
 
Is there anyway to make the user folders on a Mac to be invisible? I mean to be invisible just for the users not for the system, somekind like the hidden folders. I want to be able to open them with Finder's "Go to folder". I ask this not for some kind of securing those folders, but because I connect remotely to that Mac and I want to use just 1 folder from the user and the rest (Desktop, Documents, Library, Movies, Music, Pictures, Public, Sites) just bother my eyes.

If this is not possible can I at least make them very very transparent in some manner?

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Aug 4, 2006, 12:44 PM
 
There are several apps to do this. Wizzard is one I found just now by searching MacUpdate.
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Aug 4, 2006, 12:55 PM
 
This wizzard just toggles on and off the visibility of folders that are already hidden. I need to hide my folders but with no password in order for the OS to access them.
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 01:04 PM
 
OK, MuchoFileInfo, then.
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Aug 4, 2006, 01:06 PM
 
This is what I did just now. In the Finder, I created a folder called 'Test'. In terminal, I changed the name of this folder from 'Test' to '.Test' using the 'mv' command:

mv Test .Test

This folder then becomes invisible, but is accessible via the Go to Folder menu. No passwords, straight there.
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 01:18 PM
 
Renaming your Library or Desktop folder is a bad idea.
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Aug 4, 2006, 01:46 PM
 
What you probably want is to just share that one folder with something like SharePoints.
     
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Aug 5, 2006, 05:56 AM
 
Yes, you can. But then they are invisible for all users.
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