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Hiding system folder from site
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Gr8Swammee
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Apr 14, 2008, 10:10 AM
 
Hello All,
I've recently installed Leopard on my firewire storage drive so i can run diskwarrior (among other things) on the primary hard drive. Since this is a regularly used drive for file storage I'd rather not have to see system, user, application folders all the time on this drive. Any way to Hide them or can I place them in a subfolder? I just want to keep them out of site for my day to day activities
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 10:24 AM
 
You definitely cannot place them in a sub-folder. You could probably set a visibility flag though.

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Apr 14, 2008, 11:13 AM
 
What would that entail?
     
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Apr 14, 2008, 11:28 AM
 
This article is from 2004 and thus pretty dated, but it should put you on the right track:

Tutorial: Now you see 'em, now you don't: Invisible files in Mac OS X - MacFixIt

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Apr 14, 2008, 11:41 AM
 
I would just keep all your other files in their own folder and put that in your sidebar so you never have to look at the root of the disk.
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Apr 14, 2008, 11:55 AM
 
That makes even more sense.

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