Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Disk has lost its icon? Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:06:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <130720212258464165%nospam@nospam.invalid> <140720210955544679%nospam@nospam.invalid> Injection-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:06:03 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="17902"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:2212 In article <140720210955544679%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam wrote: >In article , Brian Gordon > 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. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Brian Gordon -->briang@panix.com<-- brian dot gordon at cox dot net | + bgordon@aol.com Bass: NSC Frank Thorne + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------