Hide Time Machine Drive
Since the release of Leopard I have wanted to hide the Time Machine drive that appears on my desktop. About once a week I would see the icon and wish it gone. You know what they say -- wish in one hand and something else in the other and see which one fills up first. So, after washing up, I decided to present my wish to Google instead. A few seconds later I had a link to a simple solution from Macworld titled Hide Time Machine's icon in the Finder.
Here is the quick version for those familiar with AppleScript (replace Time_Machine_drive_name with your drive name):
quit application "Finder"
tell application "System Events" to ¬
set visible of disk "Time_Machine_drive_name" to false
delay 1
launch application "Finder"
tell application "System Events" to ¬
set visible of disk "Time_Machine_drive_name" to false
delay 1
launch application "Finder"
I am not sure why Apple decided to leave this icon on the desktop. There should be an option on the Time Machine preference screen to hide it.
Thanks
Hey thanks for telling me what to do. I had the same problem. I think i finally found the solution. Thanks to you.