Nov 01
Here’s a nifty trick for stacking your mounted volumes. This means external disk drives, thumb drives, inserted CD/DVD’s, anything that becomes a disk or disk image mounted in Finder.
In Finder, type “Apple-Shift-G” it will prompt you for a location, type “/Volumes” and hit go. Finder will display the /Volumes folder. From here you will notice the top of the window, right in the centre, has a Folder icon with “Volumes” written next to it. Drag this small folder icon into your dock to create a stack of your Volumes!
Note that unlike other files and folders in Stacks, you cannot drag a mounted volume to the trash to eject it!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:49 am
nice…
i was looking for this …
November 1st, 2007 at 8:50 am
It doesn’t work for me. Perhaps it needs someting else
November 1st, 2007 at 8:53 am
Pedro, be sure you are dragging the small blue folder icon, as seen in the above middle picture (the little blue folder next to the word “Volumes”. Drag that down next to one of your other stacks, say, next to the Trash can…
good luck!
November 1st, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Great “trick”… Even better site! Has GREAT potential!!! Keep up the good work!
November 1st, 2007 at 9:50 pm
As someone who compulsively keeps my desktop clean, this little trick gives me more pleasure that it probably should. Now I don’t have to have ANYTHING on my desktop EVER!!!
November 1st, 2007 at 10:23 pm
It says that the folder cannot be found… Whats that?
can anyone help
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:50 am
This is a very nice tip, I just wish it were possible to drag the icon to the trash to eject
But that would make life too easy 
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
This is a great tip! Once I create the stack, does someone know how to take off the volumes from the desk top?
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Erico, go the Finder Preferences, it will have an option on what to show on the desktop (hard drives) you can uncheck the option and they are gone! cool if you just want to have an ultra-clean desktop and use the stacks for your volumes!
November 5th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Found it! Thanks James, this is exactly what I was looking for, a clean desktop!
November 7th, 2007 at 3:33 am
It appears in the Dock but when ik open it as a stack I only see grey stripes no names and no icons as well. What could be the problem?
November 19th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Slight problem, I removed the stack and now I am unable to view my external HD when I plug it in. My HD and iDisk show up as they should but not the external HD. I have made sure that these items are shown on the desktop. Any ideas to get this back?
November 19th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Brad, so your external drive isn’t showing up at all? even on the desktop? or only in the stack?
December 1st, 2007 at 4:33 am
I’m having the same problem now as Brad P listed above…
Cool tip, I do like a clean desk top, and tried stacking the /Volume, well, now the I can’t see my External HD’s in the sidebar of the finder or on the desktop, it only appears in the new Volume Stack i put in the dock, if i remove the Volume Stack, i can’t see my External HD’s at all - I have to ‘Apple-Shift-G’ again in the Finder to show the /Volumes and put them back as a stack it is now the ONLY way I can access my external HD’s - I’ve reset all my Finder preferences and rebooted, I’ve logged in as different accounts on my MacBook and they are all the same way… I can’t view my External HD’s unless I follow the above steps and make a new stack. This makes it a real Pain in the Neck when I want to open a file when I am in a program. Ex. I am in Quicktime and want to open a file, I usually type ‘Apple-O’ but now I can’t see my External HD in the sidebar. The only work-around is to drag the folder the file is in that is on my External to the sidebar where the folder will appear - the whole External Volume however will NOT do the same thing, I get a ‘circle with a line through’ showing that I can not put the External HD in the sidebar..
If you could give any advice on putting this back to the way it Originally was, I would be greatly appreciative.
Sincerely,
scotty
January 16th, 2008 at 8:51 am
New volumes appear as folders with ‘wrong way’ tags on them. It works fine otherwise. I tried unhiding /Volumes to see if I could make the icons show: no luck so far. Anybody else solve this esthetic problem?