You beat me to it.
- hold down CMD + OPT and drag the main drive. This makes an alias.
- use Finder prefs. to hide Hard Disks and External Disks.
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You beat me to it.
I think that if we keep repeating this, then all of the complicated terminal methods, 3rd party suggestions, and Mac gymnastics will get drown out…LOL…. That’s what we do on the unsupported macs threads. This is really something easy to do as @TimmuJapan and @DaveFromCampbelltown and @capuzino are all saying.
1. hold down CMD + OPT and drag the main drive. This makes an alias.
(or you can just right click the drive that you want to show and select “make alias”)
2. use Finder prefs. to hide Hard Disks and External Disks.
super, super easy… no terminal, no 3rd party apps, no Mac gymnastics..... Just a few clicks and you are there.
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STEP#5 - You have now hidden all of the drives except for the "make alias" drive(s) on the desktop.
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Step#6 - Rename the alias "Macintosh HD" or whatever you want.
You don't need any third party apps or terminal commands to get what you want here. Super easy in macOS. Just follow the steps above.
You don't need any third party apps or terminal commands to get what you want here. Super easy in macOS. Just follow the steps above.
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Good technique. Thanks. Let me see how long I can take watching the small arrows on the corners. I don't think my ADHD will handle that well.
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If you had said in your original, unedited post that those drives were just a partitioned internal hard drive you would have saved yourself (and everyone else) a lot of grief.
There is no way to do what you want because no matter how many partitions you have, it's still one Volume on the SSD, so you can either hide or show all of them, but not some and not others.
There is no way to do what you want because no matter how many partitions you have, it's still one Volume on the SSD, so you can either hide or show all of them, but not some and not others.
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You can hide that little arrow by pasting a new icon over the alias' icon via Get Info.
1.) Go to your Main Drive's "Get Info".
2.) Click the icon that appears in the Get Info window. Hit CMD-C to copy icon.
3.) Now go to your new alias' "Get Info" and click the small icon. Hit CMD-V to paste in the icon over the alias icon.
Now you don't have to see the arrow for the alias.
Wrong.
See posts #28 - #33.
Precisely what you say ” there is no way to do what you want“, I demonstrated exactly what OP wants in posts # 28 through #33. Those are internal partitioned volumes in the example. Please have a look.
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LoL
So much drama over a teeny tiny little arrow.😂
They are not partitioned volumes. Each of them is a complete external drive on a thunderbolt dock. Something like this:
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What I demonstrated in Post 28 through 33 will work for both internal partitions / volumes on the same drive, multiple internal hard drives/SSDs, and/or external drives--simultaneously.
In the example that I gave, the two gray drives are on one disk, two different volumes. The orange drive is an external drive.
We are able to hide or show any combination of these with the “make alias” technique.
It will work either way. Just don’t mind the little arrows. 😉
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This was gong to be my solution as well. Seems like we had similar thoughts.
Hate the little arrows. I try with terminal, but it can't hide the Time Machine, and it messed up the whole internal hierarchy. Awful experience. The alias doesn't work for the externals as fast as directly, it seems it calls out the original and if that one is sleeping I need to wait a bit. Anyway, It didn't work out as planned.
What does this mean?
It seems like you came here to argue with other users instead of get real help.
It's not that, it's just that you can't do what he wants to do. Making an alias is a viable workaround, but it's not optimal. For some people, it's just never enough and you're never going to satisfy them. For others, the workarounds and/or solutions are appreciated.
Bruh! I was just letting you know how was the result and my experience about it. No issues here, man. Chill
I truly appreciate the help provided. It seems because of my years of experience with macOS, I was waiting for a solution other than the ones I already know and maybe get a little frustrated. The Info settings, The Finder View option settings, The Alias option and even the Terminal hidden drive command I did before posting the 'cry for help' here. The only new option I found was also a terminal code, but it ended up messing the file's internal hierarchy, so I reset everything back to normal. Again, thanks a lot for your help and the others. Beginner macOS users will benefit of all your tips, I know they will. Sorry if my interactions were misinterpreted.