Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Disk has lost its icon? Date: 16 Jul 2021 15:23:26 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <2OudnRjfiZANYW39nZ2dnUU7-T-dnZ2d@earthlink.com> X-Trace: individual.net scIpDyf2rZgID6mMB5PF1A4+aF9WGGbHqkaEH92HjAV3f4ky6A Cancel-Lock: sha1:81iI4c6+/pI0MVV2/zKrU7ylzUo= X-No-Archive: Yes MMail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:2220 On 2021-07-16, Brian Gordon wrote: > In article <2OudnRjfiZANYW39nZ2dnUU7-T-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>, > Ant wrote: >>Have you tried a brand new macOS user account yet in the same Mac? Also >>try another Mac (don't back up though) if you have access to one? > > BINGO. I switched to another user account that is left over from years ago - > and the icon appeared! Let's see Apple blame that on the disk manufacturer! There's probably a corrupt preference file or cache file in your normal account. You could start by deleting the contents of the ~/Library/Caches folder in your normal account. If that doesn't work, try removing preference files for Finder, Dock, and so on. These files are rebuilt from scratch when they are missing. For best results, log out of your normal account first, log into an administrator account, delete the file(s) in question, then log into your normal account again to have them rebuilt from scratch. If you want to isolate the problem files, you'll do this in stages rather than all at once. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR