Comments on: Helpful Tip: Show Connected Drives & Devices in Mac OS X Dock

By: Power Tweak Your Mac’s Stacks | Lifehacker Australia

Power Tweak Your Mac’s Stacks | Lifehacker Australia — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:38:15 +0000

[...] Show all the hard drives connected to your Mac. Add a stack of “Volumes”—that is, all the hard drives connected to your Mac, from FireWire drives to USB sticks to digital camera cards—by dragging and dropping the hidden /Volumes/ folder to your Dock. Tech tip site Cybernet describes how. [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:37:31 +0000

Ryan wrote:

Doug wrote:
How do I get them off the desktop without “ejecting” them? Because if I eject them, then they no longer show up in the stack I just created.
Open up Finder, go to Preferences, and on the General tab you can uncheck the drives you don’t want to show on the desktop.

Awesome Ryan - thanks for the tip.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:47:55 +0000

Doug wrote:

How do I get them off the desktop without “ejecting” them? Because if I eject them, then they no longer show up in the stack I just created.

Open up Finder, go to Preferences, and on the General tab you can uncheck the drives you don't want to show on the desktop.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:48:17 +0000

Okay – so I have accomplished this task. However, the drives still show up out there on the desktop taking up screen real estate.

How do I get them off the desktop without “ejecting” them? Because if I eject them, then they no longer show up in the stack I just created.

Thanks!!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:59:21 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

Maybe I’m stupid, but I can’t get how to do the Volumes one. I do the trick to look at the folder, but once I do, I’m looking IN the folder, not AT it. I don’t have anything I can drag down to the dock. Am I missing something?

You can follow Dakine's tip, or switch to column mode to see the Volumes folder. I'll edit the article to reflect that... thanks!

By: Dakine

Dakine — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:02:02 +0000

At the top of the finder window (after you’ve done that search), you’ll see a small icon indicating where you are. You can drag that one to the dock, then set it up however you want it to act just like the others.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:58:43 +0000

Maybe I’m stupid, but I can’t get how to do the Volumes one. I do the trick to look at the folder, but once I do, I’m looking IN the folder, not AT it. I don’t have anything I can drag down to the dock. Am I missing something?

By: Googler (Phillip Black)

Googler (Phillip Black) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:06:24 +0000

Ryan wrote:

I’m a little surprised that you guys are even thinking that. Of course we’re going to provide Mac tips as we come across them, but a majority of our articles are still Windows-only. Heck, the CyberNotes from today is Windows-only as are the ones for tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday. Just because we throw some Mac tips in here and there doesn’t mean we’re ditching Windows.

Did someone in the Ryan household get a Mac?!?!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:51:11 +0000

I’m a little surprised that you guys are even thinking that. Of course we’re going to provide Mac tips as we come across them, but a majority of our articles are still Windows-only. Heck, the CyberNotes from today is Windows-only as are the ones for tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday. Just because we throw some Mac tips in here and there doesn’t mean we’re ditching Windows.

By: Mamba

Mamba — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:19:45 +0000

Yea, i hope you guys dont turn into a Mac only site.