Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder
Date	2013-02-01 05:30 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<slrnkgmknb.128a.g.kreme@ananke.local> (permalink)
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  MartinC <noreply@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Lewis wrote:

>> Well, this is odd, the behavior is back. time to go ferret through all the
>> shell scripts and see if there's something there.

> I just realized that you never (?) posted you OS-X version.

> In the (very unlikely) case that it is 10.5, is it possible that you
> recently added a comment to the volume icon by "get info"?

No, and I did posted in a follow-up that all my machines are on 10.8.2

> 10.5. suffered from a very odd Spotlight bug that did just this: making the
> volume invisible by frequently changing the "hidden" flag, and if I remember
> it right then the only workaround has been:
> - make it visible (once again) through the terminal
> - delete the comment by deleting the .ds file on the root folder
> - rebuild the entire Spotlight index for that volume
> - never add a comment to the icon again...

> Again, I don't think that this is the case here, but your decription sounds
> exactly like the bug reports back then.

It does. Deleting the .DS file can't hurt.

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Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-29 05:19 +0000
  Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2013-01-29 07:26 +0100
    Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-29 08:39 +0000
    Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-01-29 08:17 -0800
  Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Molon Labe <leo@thermo.net> - 2013-01-29 10:15 -0500
  Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-01-29 08:14 -0800
  Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2013-01-29 08:51 -0800
  Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-01-29 11:51 -0800
    [SOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-30 00:57 +0000
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-01-29 19:53 -0800
        Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-31 17:45 +0000
          Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder MartinC <noreply@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-31 18:58 +0100
            Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-01-31 11:38 -0800
            Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-02-01 05:30 +0000
          Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-01-31 11:37 -0800
            Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-02-01 05:40 +0000
              Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-02-01 17:32 +0000
                Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-02-01 09:35 -0800
                Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2013-02-01 20:28 -0800
                Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-02-02 07:12 -0800
                Re: [unSOLVED] Re: Mounted drive not shown in the Finder Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-02-03 23:11 +0000

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