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- From: kanep@mcs.com (Kane Peterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Hiding HD Partitions Icons Possible?
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 16:13:55 GMT
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- Message-ID: <1189.6608T597T1969@mcs.com>
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- >> Just a quick question:
- >> Is it possible to hide certain partitions from WorkBench,
- >> but still accessible from other programs?
- >> E.G. one partition solely for Virtual Memory purposes, no
- >> use for it's icon to be on the WorkBench.
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- >Simplest way is to remove the disk.info icon from that
- >partition. It'll still be there and fully accesible. But
- >just no icon on your WB...
-
- Just because "disk.info" isn't there doens't mean that no icon will show up.
- If Workbench doens't see a disk.info file for a disk, it just uses the default
- icon for it (usually a floppy disk).
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- I don't know if this will work with VMM, but it does work with Emplant Mac
- drives. If you set the DOSTYPE=0x52455356 using HDToolBox, it will set the
- partition to reserved and it will not appear on Workbench or in your file
- requesters, but a program should still be able to access the partition if
- programmed to (like Emplant is).
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