Creating a Leopard Volumes Stack

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:40 am. 4 comments

After watching Apple’s Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) videos on the Apple site I loved the new look desktop. The desktop was free of all icons and looked beautiful. So after receiving my copy of Leopard through the post I quickly installed it and noticed that once installed all the disk icons still appeared on the desktop.It turns out the you can turn the icons off, just open a Finder window and select ‘Preferences’ from the ‘File’ menu. You can the unselect various item to show on your desktop as shown below.

But then I thought to myself wouldn’t be great if I could have a stack for all my Volumes (Mounted Disks) as they are no longer being shown on my desktop. This should be as easy as dragging a ‘Volumes’ folder onto my Dock. Well it was not quite that easy, as I could not find a ‘Volumes’ folder that contains all my mounted drives. It turns out there is such a folder but it is hidden in the Finder. So you probably asking did I manage to do it? Yes! To start you need to open a Finder window if you have not already got one open, and select ‘Go to Folder…’ from the ‘Go’ menu . You will then be dislayed with a dialog as shown below:

 

Type ‘/Volumes/’ in the input box and hit enter or click ‘Go’. This will display the hidden ‘Volumes’ folder in the Finder. Now all you need to do now is drag the ‘Volumes’ icon from the title bar area of the Finder window to the dock, see below:

Now you will have a Volumes stack that will always show you what devices are connected and leaves your desktop free from Volume icons.