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Invisible folders
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2005
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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?
10x
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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There are several apps to do this. Wizzard is one I found just now by searching MacUpdate.
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Chuck
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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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Clinically Insane
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Chuck
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Manchester, UK
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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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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Renaming your Library or Desktop folder is a bad idea.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Newport News, VA USA
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What you probably want is to just share that one folder with something like SharePoints.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Yes, you can. But then they are invisible for all users.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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