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	2021-07-15 01:36 +0000
Organization	Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<sco3er$o9m$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References	<sclih8$sm4$1@panix3.panix.com> <il8phkF5d6bU1@mid.individual.net>

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In article <il8phkF5d6bU1@mid.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger  <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>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?
>

drwxr-xr-x  36 root          wheel  sunlnk 1292 May 20 11:44 Backup
drwx------   3 brianggordon  wheel  -        96 Jun  6 22:51 STICK2
drwxr-xr-x   3 root          wheel  -        96 Jul 13 22:18 com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots

"Backup" is the disk under discussion.

After two hours on the phone today, Apple support said to call the disk
manufacturer (Seagate).  That's ongoing and continued tomorrow.

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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) - 2021-07-15 01:36 +0000
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