How  can you hide folders?

Everytime I plug in an external drive or flash drive I always see the 'recycled' folder for that drive..and sometimes other annoying folders I do not wish to see...Does anybody know how I can 'hide' these folders..as deleting them only brings them back the next time I plug in the drive..
hmmm...

Open the Terminal and type (or paste) this:
chflags hidden
(Note that there's a space at the end... make sure that's there.) Next, drag the folder you want to hide onto the Terminal window. Finally, press return to execute the command. The folder should be hidden, though you might need to unmount and re-mount the drive to see the change.
If you ever want to reverse it, do the same command, but change "hidden" to "nohidden"... of course, you won't be able to see the folder to drag onto the Terminal, so you'll have to enter the path manually. If you're not well-versed in Unix and how file paths are structured, you may want to copy the path from the first command and store it somewhere for future reference.

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