Hide Desktop Items With an AppleScript

Here are a pair of Finder AppleScripts to hide all of your Desktop files. The first makes them disappear. The second brings them back.

Hide Desktop Files

do shell script "chflags hidden ~/Desktop/*"

do shell script "chflags nohidden ~/Desktop/*"

Copy each script into its own Script Editor window and save them to ~/Library/Scripts. I wish I’d known about this trick sooner.

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