Clearing macOS Desktop Clutter

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Every year I create a folder on my macOS desktop with the current year, like 2024 and move all the desktop items into it (so it contains a folder named 2023 and so on). The reason? To clear my desktop, as for some reason macOS defaults to it for saving various files.

This two-liner is better. Simply turns off the display of the files on your desktop. Perfect 👌

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
killall Finder