How to hide a hard drive

Question

Does anyone know if there's a way to not have a hard drive show up on the desktop? In my case, the Time Machine backup drive sits there. But I really don't need to access it. I'd like to simply hide from view.

Answer 1

you can add a period to the front of the hard drive's name. this will hide it from Finder and hence from desktop. it will still be available from the sidebar. You can't do it directly from finder because it won't let you but you can do it using Apple script.
paste the following into Script Editor
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Finder"
set name of disk "current drive name" to ".current drive name"
quit
delay 1
launch
end tell</pre>
Put the name of the drive instead "current drive name" in the script. keep the quotes. press "run".
Message was edited by: V.K.