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	2013-01-31 17:45 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<slrnkglbea.28ib.g.kreme@ananke.local> (permalink)
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In message <jollyroger-E4A27D.19532529012013@news.individual.net> 
  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article <slrnkggs10.6gh.g.kreme@ananke.local>,
>  Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>> In message <ke998i$k95$1@reader1.panix.com> 
>>   Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> wrote:
>> > On 2013-01-29 05:19:55 +0000, Lewis said:
>> 
>> >> I mount my 8TB raid from my mini on both my iMac and my MacBookPro, as I
>> >> have done for the better part of a year.
>> >> 
>> >> The trouble is, the drive does not show up in the Finder. If I got to
>> >> the top level of the computer, I see all the local drives and other
>> >> mounted drives, but not the raid.
>> 
>> > Did you check Finder Preferences?  There are checkboxes under
>> > General for "show these items on the desktop" and one of them
>> > is "connected servers".  There's also a similar checkbox under
>> > Sidebar for "show these items in the sidebar" and, again, there
>> > is "connected servers".
>> 
>> Yes, as I said, other mount points show up just fine, and the issue was
>> not that I couldn't see the drive on the Desktop, but that I could not
>> see the drive *at all* in the finder unless I navigated directly to it.
>> It was, effectively, invisible.
>> 
>> I did fix it.
>> 
>> logged in to the server and typed
>> 
>> sudo chflags nohidden /Volumes/Zero
>> 
>> problem solved.
>> 
>> The only question now is how that flag got changed in the first place.

> Good question, that.

> Perhaps you made a typo on a chflags command line you meant for some 
> other file?

> Just throwing things out there.  : )

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

Is there any other way to make a volume invisible besides the chflags
command?

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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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