Thread: Icon from desktop in Mac

I am using Mac notebook and I want to remove icons from the desktop. The most of the icons are unwanted or there is no use. I tried to delete them but I am not able to do that. Please anyone can help me to solve this problem. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Follow the given stepladder to hide or remove the icons which explain on the desktop of the Mac notebook.

Just follow the steps:

• First choose your Active TM-Image.

• Then open the Terminal and execute the following line:
sudo chflags hidden "/Volumes/TimeMachinedrive_name"

• In the above line where the TimeMachinedrive_name is the name of the backup image.

• Finally restart the Finder.

In the given you can you'll be able to hide the driver from the desktop. You can hide the drive from the finder which will also hide it starting the desktop. This can be finished by using the following terminal command.

chflags hidden /volumes/"drive name"

in the place of the constrain name put the name of the drive and keep the quotes to unhide it and run

chflags nohidden /volumes/"drive name"

And if you crave to unhide the drive than you want write the above mention command.