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Enabling the “Hide On My Computer folders” checkbox in Outlook’s General Preferences
One of the more useful (to me) features in Outlook is the ability to hide the On My Computer directories in Outlook. There’s a checkbox in Outlook’s preferences, in the General section, that enables it. It’s also possible to enable this using a defaults command:
defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook HideFoldersOnMyComputerRootInFolderList -bool true
Also, because you can set this with a defaults command, it’s possible to manage this with MCX:
Domain: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Outlook
Key: HideFoldersOnMyComputerRootInFolderList
Value: True (to enable the checkbox) or False (to de-select it)
Categories: Mac administration, Mac OS X, Office 2011
how do you find these hidden “defaults write” options? Like what told you that “HideFoldersOnMyComputerRootInFolderList” was the key to use? I understand that sometimes you can find/see them in the plist, but what about when you can’t? There are so many commands that people seemingly just know.
This link may help explain things: http://commandlinemac.blogspot.com/2008/12/defaults-setting-preferences-from.html