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Most will know how to show or hide network shares on your Mac desktop. Click a Finder window, select the "Finder" - "Settings" menu and under the "General" tab either check "Connected servers" to show share icons on your desktop, or uncheck this option to not show these icons. Downside: this affects all mounted share icons.
Applications like Path Finder have a more advanced "Get Info" option, so when selecting the actual mount path of a share, you can right click that directory and check or uncheck the "invisible" option. But of course, not everybody has a copy of Path Finder (commercial app).
Now there is a trick to do this in Terminal - which may not work in old(er) macOS versions, but so far it seems to work in Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.
Let's say we have a share mounted in /Volumes/AllShares and the Finder option enable to show "Connected Servers" on the Desktop. This will make it that we will see an "AllShares" icon on the desktop.
List Extended attributes
When hiding the share icon from the Desktop, I did see that the extended attribute "comp.apple.FinderInfo" of the original directory (/Volumes/AllShares) was given a specific value (note that this value can hold other otpions as well, like the flag colors for example):
Of course the rick now ... how do we add this "weird" value as an extended attribute?
Manually set the Share icon on the Desktop to hidden
To make a specific share icon hidden (killall Finder to make it visible, and note that color tag will be unset after this):
xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo "0000000000000000400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" /Volumes/AllShares
killall Finder
Unhide mounted share icon from Desktop
To unhide this particular icon we will need to remove the extended attribute "com.apple.FinderInfo" from the original directory (/Volumes/AllShares). In Terminal ( "-d" = delete, and again: note that color tag will be unset after this ) :
xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo /Volumes/AllShares
To make this visible we will need to restart Finder like so (in Terminal):
killall Finder
Took me quite a bit of time to figure this out ,... so I hope it will be useful to someone.
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