I was concerned about some personal or confidential info being visible during any remote access tech support, so I used the built in OS file & folder facility for rendering those items hidden. I subsequently confirmed that what was thereby hidden would only show up *locally* to a file manager I have that displays *everything*, along with its status — whether visible or hidden. In fact, a bunch of installed programs that apparently did not like hidden stuff being present — even though those particular files & folders were not at all involved in those programs’ operations ! — would temporarily cease working. Until I later undid what had been done.

So, I’m wondering about a couple things. It sounds like this may be a much stronger method of hiding sections ? Secondly, I’d be concerned about something going wrong in the course of using this solution, painting myself into a corner, “getting hoist on one’s own petard” — so to speak, if you follow me.

Is the “native” method I was using somehow inadequate, at least for casual use ? The remote access will be rather time limited, and won’t be onsite here to linger over things. If the program developer happens to see this and cares to respond, that would be fine.