Macintosh HD icon missing on desktop
17" PB G4; Mac OS 10.4.9; Lacie 250GB Firewire 800/400/USB external hard drive.
The Lacie external hard drive is split into two partitions - "Macintosh HD backup" and "Audio Video".
The Lacie is scheduled to backup my entire "Macintosh HD" system files every night to its "Macintosh HD backup" partition. Things have been going fine since a few months now and still get backed up properly every night. But a couple of months ago I noticed the "Macintosh HD" icon was missing from my desktop and sidebar and so was Lacie's "Macintosh HD backup" icon. They've been missing since. Lacie's "Audio Video" icon shows up fine.
Under Finder Preferences I made sure that all boxes including hard disks are checked to show on desktop. I tried new cables. I tried Disk Utitlity. The volumes show up there but "Verify Disk Permissions" and "Repair Disk Permissions" on both the PB and Lacie's disks still couldn't get the icons to show.
When I use Find, both the system's "Macintosh HD" and Lacie's "Macintosh HD backup" show up in the results and I can double-click and access them from there but I want the icons to show on the desktop and sidebar like they should.
Your suggestions in resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated.
The Lacie external hard drive is split into two partitions - "Macintosh HD backup" and "Audio Video".
The Lacie is scheduled to backup my entire "Macintosh HD" system files every night to its "Macintosh HD backup" partition. Things have been going fine since a few months now and still get backed up properly every night. But a couple of months ago I noticed the "Macintosh HD" icon was missing from my desktop and sidebar and so was Lacie's "Macintosh HD backup" icon. They've been missing since. Lacie's "Audio Video" icon shows up fine.
Under Finder Preferences I made sure that all boxes including hard disks are checked to show on desktop. I tried new cables. I tried Disk Utitlity. The volumes show up there but "Verify Disk Permissions" and "Repair Disk Permissions" on both the PB and Lacie's disks still couldn't get the icons to show.
When I use Find, both the system's "Macintosh HD" and Lacie's "Macintosh HD backup" show up in the results and I can double-click and access them from there but I want the icons to show on the desktop and sidebar like they should.
Your suggestions in resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Comments
Unfortunately external hard drives are controlled by the "CDs, DVDs, and iPods" Finder preference, not the Hard disks one. Do you have that one also checked?
Yes. That one's also checked.