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Remove Go iDisk from the Finder.app menu

One of the nicest things about xnu is how much control you have over Aqua and how it functions.

The menus for Finder (and many other applications) are for all intensive purposes "open source" and you can modify them once you understand how they are built.

NOTE: You must have the XCode Developer Tools installed for this to work.

Open Terminal.app

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj

(substitute your native language as appropriate)

sudo tar cvf Menus.nib.tgz Menus.nib

sudo open Menus.nib

Use Interface builder to remove definitions for iDisk.

Save file to desktop.

Delete the old directory (rm -rf Menus.nib) and copy the edited file back into the Finder resources tree.

If you make Finder FUBAR boot from the DVD and replace the file in Terminal.

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