hide "specific" drives on mac desktop

[reddrag0n]

i am wondering if there is a script i can create to hide specific drives on my desktop? i know i can hide all drives but i need some to be visable, but the others can be hidden. aka the windows drives and the main opencore boot drive doesn't need to be on the desktop while in mojave

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[chabig]

The only way I know to do this is this–make aliases of the drives you want to be visible on the desktop, then hide the hard drives and just use the aliases instead.

 

[avz]

I am using BitLocker with my Windows 11 Pro BootCamp installation and I don't see it on my Mac desktop.

 

[reddrag0n]

found my answer buried in this forum

I am not an AppleScripter but did find this:

Automatically Mount External Drive to Clone a Mac » The Appademic

A good example of a simple macOS automation. How to automatically mount external drive to create a bootable clone backup.

appademic.tech

So, in your case:

1. Launch Script Editor
2. Input

do shell script "diskutil unmount /Volumes/AU0039"

3. Go to File -> Export...
— Name the file whatever you want (e.g. unmount-ext_AU0039)
— Choose a save destination
— Verify the File Format is Script Application
4. Add the file to Startup/Login Items

I have not tested this on (re)boot to ensure that macOS runs the script and does not simply open the editor.

tested and it works like a charm