This should be easy but I can't seem to get it!
My 3 year old keeps ejecting my drives because they exist as icons on the desktop.
I'd like to remove those drive icons from my desktop but still show them as mounted in my finder sidebar.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 16G of RAM, Pegasus R4
I'm trying to clean up my desktop and am getting annoyed by the disk icon. It's the CD icon for The Sims 3. If I try to move it, it creates a copy, and if I try to trash it, it ejects the disk, and I play the game enough that I don't want to have to be getting it out and in and out and in all the time, especially where I currently have my computer set up.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have just two icons on my desktop, like this. That's all very nice, but I'd rather there was no text under them and that they looked like this. I'm sure you'll agree that it looks much prettier, but of course it's a mockup. Can I do this for real without using the trick of renaming the drives to be *space* ?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac, Windows7
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3
ok so my new 2.4 aluminum macbook which i have had for a while and its been amazing is having tons of isues.
kernal panic the screen goes gray with a box in the middle with a power button behind it saying it need to hold the restart button and then presss it again.
i called applecare and the lady had me delete the plist files and for some reason a couple kept coming back and would not delet virus maybe. but i did that then restarted my computer and my doc was full blown huge loast alot of data and all that. plus my computer started to play the video when installing leopard really odd. my email information is gone to...and now my aluminum macbook says in a pop up install box remote install mac osx helps you install mac os x on your macbook air what the ****.
also my hard drive icon on my desk top was renames to ]..
i am scared as to whats going on. i can usually fix most things this is messed up i think its a virus
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
I have a Time Capsule with an external drive connected on the Time Capsule's USB port. On that drive, I have a disk image that I use for a backup clone. When I eject the back up disk image from my MacBook Pro, the Finder's Sidebar entry for the disk image begins to "flash" back and forth between "Macintosh HD" and the name of the disk image. The flashing item never disappears, unless I restart. The effect is shown in this YouTube video that I found when searching about this issue:
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
For whatever reason, my Hard Drive icon has moved itself down a spot on the OS X desktop. It's the only icon on the desktop and when I put it back in the upper right corner like it was originally it stays until I reboot and then it's moved back down a "spot." Anyone run into this funny behavior?
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Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How come external disks icon cannot be displayed on desktop of my macbook air?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
MacBook Pro; 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3; OS X 10.6.8.
The Issue is a duplicate icon of the hard drive appeared on the desktop this AM upon startup.
I don't know what caused it. It just appeared.
It seems to contain everything the start up icon contains when I open it.
I moved it to the trash, but did not erase the trash. I chickened out, so to speak. I removed back to the desktop.
I have the desktop view set to arrange by date modified. It appears approximately half way down the list of icons showing on the desktop. It seems to me that, if it is a duplicate, and by all appearances it is, then it should appear immediately after the real hard drive icon.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Does anybody know why I can't change my sidebar iDisk icon? The changes show up on the desktop, just not in the sidebar. The icons for the my main drive and external drives are changed in the sidebar.
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