Re: Disk has lost its icon?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: Disk has lost its icon?
Date	2021-07-14 18:43 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<il8phkF5d6bU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<sclih8$sm4$1@panix3.panix.com>

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On 2021-07-14, Brian Gordon <briang@panix.com> wrote:
> I have an external 2TB disk I use for backups.  The backups are going just
> fine, as is its use by Time Machine, so it is obviously mounted and
> reasonably happy.
>
> However, no disk icon for it appears on the desktop [MacBook Pro (Retina,
> 13-inch, Early 2015) running macOS 11.4]  That's not something I am familar
> with, and I don't know what is missing or how to fix it.  Disk Utility
> doesn't seem to cover it.
>
> Help?

With the drive connected and mounted, open a terminal window and execute
this command:

ls -lO /Volumes

What is the output?

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Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-14 02:35 +0000
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    Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-14 03:41 +0000
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-14 09:55 -0400
        Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-14 14:06 +0000
          Re: Disk has lost its icon? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-14 10:23 -0400
  Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-14 18:43 +0000
    Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-15 01:36 +0000
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-14 21:40 -0400
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-15 22:10 +0000
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    Re: Disk has lost its icon? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2021-07-16 14:42 +0000
      Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-16 15:23 +0000
        Re: Disk has lost its icon? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-16 20:46 -0500
          Re: Disk has lost its icon? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2021-07-17 02:03 +0000
            Re: Disk has lost its icon? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-07-17 00:15 -0500

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