External drive shows up when NOT connected
I have a FANTOM external drive where I keep my music and photos, but recently I've been having a problem. I accidentally downloaded photos to my computer when the drive wasn't connected, and my computer seems to have created it's own directory (or partition, or something, I don't know) called FANTOM and put the photos there, but I can't find any way to access it.
This means that when I open iPhoto, the pictures that I downloaded most recently are there. But if I do a search in Finder, my computer can't find any of the files - there's no iPhoto Library, and if I search by the file names of individual pictures, nothing comes up.
I finally tried exporting one of the photos from iPhoto, and the default location it comes up with to export the photo to is XXX's Computer/Macintosh HD/Volumes/FANTOM/Pictures/iPhoto Library. If I click OK, it seems to save the photo to that location - when I go back and export another photo, the first one I exported shows up in that folder. The only problem is, my FANTOM drive isn't actually connected. So where is it putting the photo?
What I would like to do is get rid of this mysterious FANTOM drive that seems to reside somewhere on my computer, so that I can connect my real FANTOM drive and use my real iPhoto Library. At the moment, even when I connect my external drive (and it shows up on the desktop and all that), my computer still only shows the pictures that are in the other iPhoto Library on its own, mystery FANTOM drive. And since I can't even find that mystery drive on my computer, there's no way for me to delete that iPhoto Library or rename it so that I can switch to the library on my real external drive.
Has anyone experienced this before? The best explanation I can come up with is that my computer looked for my external drive, and when it didn't find it, it created another imaginary drive with the same name - but that doesn't explain why the ONLY time it actually shows me this directory is when I'm trying to export a photo from iPhoto (it doesn't show up as a drive in Finder), or why the files in that directory don't show up when I search "Everywhere" on my computer.
Thanks for your help.
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
HI
If you want to use match when your hard drive is not attached, I suggest that you create a new blank library then turn on match, you will see all your music in cloud. Hold option key whilst launching iTunes and select create new library. You can switch between libraries as required.
Jim
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