Hi Steve, Go a head and hide the drives. Then when you want to show them just hit. command shift c this will show all your connected hard drives and you can pick the one you want to look at. You can also find this command under the “go” menu HTH Chuck
> On Apr 30, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote: > > I currently have all disks showing in Finder on my wife's machine, but > somehow, and nobody seems to know how this happens, drives get renamed to > strange things. I suspect a cat is involved, walking on the RETURN key, > pressing more keys, then walking on the RETURN key again to effectively > rename things. Sometimes the things that get renamed are the system drive and > the Time Machine drive. While this does not appear to affect the system's > functionality or behavior in any way, the only way I know to stop it from > happening is to take those things off the desktop via the Finder Preferences > window. But if I do that, how will my wife know if there's a problem with, > say, the Time Machine drive if the icon for it isn't there any more? Is there > somethin in the Extras area under the Time Machine menu to indicate absence > of the TM drive? Just trying to ward off potential problems caused by little > creatures that walk on and among things on and among which they really > oughtn't be walking in the first place, but always do! > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/181a2964-c6a5-fd43-209f-33dbb2b77155%40noisynotes.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/4AB7130C-6B2B-4D87-9432-9C7AFB55C6C6%40gmail.com.
