Comments on: Hiding a mounted volume on MacOS

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:20:59 +0000

hey, that’s a great idea! It never occurred to me that in the UNIX world, files/folders starting with dot count as “hidden”, but in Windows, they’re ignored. Great tip!

By: Delete

Delete — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:58:30 +0000

You’re right. All those things do not work with Leopard. But heres a simple one: just boot Windows, right-click and select properties of the C: drive or the drive you don’t wanna see in MacOS and give it a name that starts with a dot. Works with XP but I don’t think vista’s different

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:32:41 +0000

Well, after upgrading to Leopard, not sure if this still works or not. I installed Leopard and my Untitled volume (the Windows partition) appeared on my desktop again. Re-running the command above seems to give a permissions problem. If anyone else has any suggestions, be sure to post!

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:02:46 +0000

Right, thanks for pointing that out Chris. If you can find your disks, it’s a lot faster than downloading the whole thing from Apple.

By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:39:09 +0000

Howdy. Apple Developer Tools is included on the second disk of your Mac OS X installation disks…