Re: Disk has lost its icon?

From	briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: Disk has lost its icon?
Date	2021-07-14 14:06 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<scmr0b$hfe$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References	<sclih8$sm4$1@panix3.panix.com> <130720212258464165%nospam@nospam.invalid> <sclmd2$gh2$1@reader1.panix.com> <140720210955544679%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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In article <140720210955544679%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
nospam  <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>In article <sclmd2$gh2$1@reader1.panix.com>, 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.
>> >
>> >check finder prefs to see if external hard disks should be shown on the
>> >desktop.
>> 
>> Thanks for the tip - I should have mentioned that Finder Preferences are set
>> to show them and that when I plug in a different disk, its icon appears as
>> expected.  This one seems unique.
>
>did it ever show?

Unfortunately, not yet.  I just had Disk Utility check it, and it found
nothing wrong.
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