[Macworld]

Post your comments for Hide Time Machine's icon in the Finder here

[slambert73]

This is a bad (and very common) way to restart the Finder. The Finder is unable to do a proper shut down procedure. As a result currently open Finder windows won't (necessarily) reappear on restart. Recently closed windows sometimes reappear when the finder restarts!
To do the same thing neatly just use this instead:
tell app "Finder" to quit
I just learned this hint today at macosxhints.com. I have been looking to fix this issue in other examples for a long time.
-Scott

[slambert73]

Duplicate message.

[kingjr3]

You can also enable the Quit menu for Finder so you don't have to use Applescript. In Terminal, enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem TRUE
The quit menu will then be enabled upon restart/reboot.

[MichelleEris]

This script will toggle the visibility of the disk:

tell application "Finder" to quit
tell application "System Events" to ?
set visible of disk "diskname" to ?
not visible of disk "michelle"
tell application "Finder" to run

[cour10e22]

Does this method also work with a Time Capsule? I'm having the hardest time to get this to work with my Time Capsule...

[MichelleEris]

Yes, it works with Time Capsule; that's what I tested it on.

[cour10e22]

Okay, so this is me with the Time Capsule again. I have tried both the Terminal and Applescript methods and neither are working. My Time Capsule is "named" this: "[My Name]'s Time Capsule" but when I connect to the Time Capsule, it's name is "Time Capsule Disk." Which name do I put in? It almost seemed to work after I connected to the Time Capsule and put in "Time Capsule Disk" in the code, since it wasn't visible in /Volumes until I connected to it, but the TC is STILL showing in Shared in the Finder side bar. Also, the other icon is showing up beneath it, the local hostname. Can I get rid of both of these??

[MichelleEris]

My script is to hide it from the Desktop, not from the Sidebar. So use whatever name appears on the desktop.

[JimmyJazzuk77]

I'm probably missing something obvious but I can't drag my time capsule volumes from the sidebar in 10.5.2...

[cour10e22]

Same here...I can't drag them out of the sidebar either. Also, nothing has ever appeared on my desktop unless I actually mounted the Time Capsule (and the sparse image during the backup, of course). It's not showing up on the desktop now, so the script must have actually worked.

But...I would love to get them out of my sidebar! Is there a fix for this?

[kingjr3]

Finder > Preferences > Sidebar

[JimmyJazzuk77]

Yeah, unfortunately it's not quite as easy as that. Finder > Preferences > Sidebar wont work because you would have to turn off 'Bonjour Computers' which would hide the rest of the computers on the network.

[Joyrider]

Off-topic a little, but maybe one of you experts can help with this issue...after the first backup by Time Machine, I get this error message: This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 19661.6 GB but only 335 GB are available.
Someone said it was VirusBarrier interfering; I deleted those files but still have the problem.
Thanks for any forthcoming help!