Flickering Network Drive icons+crazy finder behavior?

I have a video that I will post a link to below. In FCP, this is what I am seeing. It is a network drive and the flashing icons on the desktop are network drives. Any help would be great as I can't select media to reconnect to. Thanks
http://gallery.me.com/tyleraparker#100008/iMac%20prblems

This is becoming a problem. Please check out this video or the video below. Has been happening for a while now. Not sure what to do other than reinstall OS.
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Network Drives Disappear from Finder Intermittently

I'm periodically having problems with my Mac recognizing an Iomega Home Media Network Drive. Everything's connected together using an Airport Extreme. Usually the drive will show up under the "Shared" category in the Finder, and I can connect and use it normally.
Every once and awhile, it disappears from that list. I can still connect manually using Go->Connect to Server, but the Finder doesn't pick it up on its own. After a few days or weeks, it'll just show up in the shared list again. No amount of restarting/repairing permissions will fix it. For example, my drive has been missing for about a week now, and after doing nothing special it decided to show back up while I was typing this post.
I've seen this topic come up periodically on the boards, but I couldn't find anything recent or with a solution. Has anyone encountered or come up with a fix for this?
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-Jason

I have an Iomega drive that is also fidgety on the network, either in Leopard (when problem arose) or SL (when I found my solution). I actually had to view my drive under the sidebar path ComputerName> Network> AirPortEx> Iomega Drive because I kept getting errors when I tried to view in column view from the shared section despite having the drive set to ignore permissions.
Firstly, this is what I call a workaround, not a fix, as recognition of the drive doesn't work seamlessly in Finder as advertised, but required these extra steps in order for me to always see the drive in the sidebar. Secondly, it may not be absolutely necessary to do all these things, and I am assuming you have the authority on your network to do all these things, but here's what I've done to get my satisfaction:
1. Make sure you set servers to mount on the desktop in Finder prefs and that connected servers and bonjour computers are set up to show in the sidebar
2. Use connect to server if you have to and mount the drive to your desktop
3. Once the drive is on your desktop, open system prefs and go to your login items under Accounts & Authenticate by clicking the lock on the lower left and entering your password
4. Drag the network drive into your login items (and dock, sidebar, or window toolbar if desired)
5. Restart
This may not be the fix you hoped for. You do seem to have to keep the drive mounted, etc. But I do always see it in my sidebar under sharing now, and have no problems viewing anything on it from wherever in the Finder I try to access it (whether from the sidebar in the shared section or under the network area of my computer, in the dock, or from the toolbar). At the very least you never have to Connect to Server again. Hit the drive icon in the dock and it will connect if you get disconnected.
FYI: Make sure you always choose the "ignore" button when/if alerts pop up to tell you that you have been disconnected from the drive because you'll have to remount otherwise. These alerts occur to me only when waking my MBP from sleep. I wait 2-3 seconds, and click on the icon of my Iomega drive that I have in my sidebar, toolbar, or dock and it shows contents just fine, still connected after all.
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Network drives in the finder window

In the sidebar of any finder window under the "Shared" area that list the volumes that my laptop can access. Can someone please explain why I can see my network drives as servers with IP address and as sharepoints with the name that I've given the drives? Example:
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These two items are the same unit. Up until recently I was also able to see my Maxtor drive the same way (as IP address and as its name, Starfleet). Now I only get Starfleet and I can not get it to mount as an IP address. For awhile I was getting lots of errors saying that the drive could not mount, and I would get "Starfleet" but not the IP address. I removed the Quickstart SW from my computer and that seems to have stopped the errors (and maybe the IP address too?). Seem I can access the unit with out problems but I'm wonder why OS10.5 is doing this new way of seeing the drives. Anyone that can help me understand, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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How to get back iCloud drive icon in Finder?

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I removed the iCloud Drive link from my Finder's favorites as I was unable to open it properly (only worked when using the context menu via right-clicking). Now, how do I re-gain access to it? I cannot find any iCloud Drive icon anywhere in the finder.

Thanks, that solved it. Unfortunately, I still cannot open the iCloud Drive by simply clicking on the link in the finder, I have to do the route via Right-Click and Open in new tab. But googling that issue, I found another one having the same problem, so it is not just me at least...
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AppleScript to change mounted network drive icon?

Howdy,
I have 3 networked Windows 2003 drives that I use everyday for my work. Now OS X networking is a bit iffy, and the way it maps drives is a bit weak compared to windows... in the way you have to remap the drive everytime you login and everytime after the machine sleeps!
Well I have a AppleScript that is in my login items and runs every login to map these drives. I also have SleepWatcher installed, and it runs the same script after the lappy wakes up... it maps them fine and all is good (although I hope one day Apple fix it so that the drives stays mapped permantely like Windows!).
Well I have one problem, I apply my own icon to these mapped drives, and when they are mapped after login/wake sometimes all the icons keep this new icon, or other times they go to a standard folder icon? Its very random, and it happens at least 1 in 2 logins, and its also random what drive it gives the dud icons too!
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Doubtful that you'll do it in one line, but there are approaches.
One is to get AS to open the get info window for the the icon you want to customize AND the get info window for a folder with the custom icon you want to use, then paste one to the other (with AS). This is straightforward if you do it manually, and I once made it happen with AS but found it so cumbersome that I never really used it.
Another approach is a "do shell script", using commands from some brief software called osxutils that can be downloaded for free. You should see thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1105260&tstart=50 in these discussions. This may (or may not) do the job for you.

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Finder windows close randomly on network drive

Hi, searched on google for long time and found nothing. I'm working in a small office (13 iMacs and Mac Pros) and the Finder have a strange behavior.
In my office, 12 iMacs and Mac Pro are using OS 10.6.8 to 10.8.3, and there is a server that contain a backup of every project and every user must save his project at the end of the day on the server. The server is a Mac Pro first generation with 8GB RAM running 10.7.5 server, and a 2TB HD that is shared with everyone.
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I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background. The thread may shed some light on exactly what you did wrong. ITunes shows all the copies of the files that are the same as each other. If you delete them all you end up with none.
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Weird: why would a network drive named "time-capsule-de" with an icon of an old-fashioned PC monitor appear on my home network?

Weird: why would a network drive with the name "time-capsule-de" and an icon of an old-fashioned PC monitor suddenly appear on my home network?
It happened shortly after I'd set up a new Time Capsule with our iMac and had transferred the configuration for it over from my old Time Capsule.
I'd just taken the old Time Capsule into another room and powered it up with my MacBook to confirm that Airport Utility's wiping of its settings hadn't affected the old Time Machine backups still stored in it.
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What is the name of your old Time Capsule? Did you change the name to the new one?
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There is nothing bad or sinister going on.. but you certainly need to ensure your own wireless network is secure..
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Itunes can't find network drive on boot, but fine after

I have a MacMini server for my house providing light control, emal, websites and other fun stuff.   As it is on 24x7 it made sense to put the iTunes library here as well and have my primary workstation simply connect to it. As the MacMini is in a closet I really need the primary workstation as the point of connection for all iPads and iPhones.
This seemed simple enough in theory but it's got a quirk in it somewhere.
On startup, the primary workstation always comes up with an error that it can't find the iTunes library.   But when I click the option button to choose the library, it opens to the proper place - the directory locatino on the MacMini.
After I have done this, iTunes works just as expected.   I can even close iTunes on the workstation and open it again - poof, there it is as expected and no problem.   If I shut down the workstation and start it up again then once again I get this same error from iTunes regarding it being unable to find the library.
I wrote an apple script in an effort to establish connection to the network drive (i.e., the MacMini) and it works just fine - it even has a delay to make sure the connection is established (I can disable this but it makes no difference). The problem is that it seems to run AFTER the iTunes Helper has tried and fialed.
Under my Login Items, the iTuens Helper is always the First application listed. I can't seem to reorder them at all. I can delete the iTunes Helper, but then of coruse iTunes doesn't launch.   Once I set the preferences again to start iTunes at Startup, it reasserts itself to be first in line.
I am using a Mac Airport Extreme (had the original and now have the 802.11ac) as the central network controller - but this issue was there before. Although there is a Netgear Gigbabit router in the house too, the workstation and the MacMini are both on diret lines to the Airport Extreme and are not using wireless.
The sharing of the media files works just fine, and from the Apple TVs in the house I can select and play either from the MacMini or the workstation as long as the workstation is on.   Of course the media is all coming from the MacMini drive as the original source, but there are no latency issues perceptable.
It's only the initial startup boot of the workstation that seems to trigger this error.
I have tried removing the network connection script, and simply reidetifying the library location using the option key when starting iTunes - but the behavior remains.
Searching for how others have recommended doing this, most articles don't have the login script but others do - but none of them have any sort of a bi-line warning that for the initial startup there may be this lost library error.
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I don't have any other startup applications that require info from the MacMini. However, since I adminster it via screen share, and usually have no exited that - screen share is happily there and fully connected after startup.   Leaving this open or shutting it down doesn't have any affect on the iTunes issue.
This seems to simple an issue for it to have a complex cause - but I am clearly missing something.
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On a whim, I tested the remote library with my MacBook Pro.
I shut down iTunes on the MacPro Workstation and then used the Option key to startup iTunes on the MacBook Pro - and selected the remote library on the MacMini.   Worked jsut fine (of coure the size of the open window was too big) but no issues at all.
And once selected, I can close and start iTunes repeatedly with no issues on the MacBook Pro.
Then I did a Shutdown and Restart.   Following the login I get the very same popup window telling me that the iTunes library can not be found. AND just like on the Workstation, I hit the option for Choose and it takes me right to the correct location on the MacMini - all I need to do is accept and poof it launches just as it should.
The MacBook is on wireless.
Indications here are that this is an issue with iTunes starting up before the netowrk handshakes have completed.
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Finder is very slow, particularly when using network drive

I have a mid-2011 Macbook Air, OSX 10.9.4, and Finder is extremely slow, particularly when I am navigating my Time Capsule. First, a little history.
I have tried the fixes listed in these three threads:
(1) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3358265?searchText=finder%20slow
(2) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1324280?searchText=Finder%20is%20slow
(3) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5495797?start=30&tstart=0
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When I navigate the directories on my Time Capsule, if I haven't been in a particular folder, it takes a very long time to load the contents. On average, it will be 30 seconds, but it is not uncommon for it to be over a minute. This can happen even if a folder is empty or has just a few files in it. In addition, adding a subfolder and trying to rename it takes a very long time. After renaming a new folder, it can then take another full minute or more for the folder to actually show the newly assigned name and bounce into line in alphabetical order.
Here are some other observations. First, my connection is very fast, as I'm directly connected to the Time Capsule (albeit via wireless). Second, there is clearly something extra going on in Finder that is contributing to this issue, because I navigated to different directories using Terminal and did an "ls" command, and as you would expect, the list fired out virtually instantaneously. Yet, right after that, if I clicked on that same folder with Finder, it would take a minute or more to display the same file names.
Could it be that the Finder is doing other things at the same time as it is giving me a list of what is in the directory? For example, could the Finder be loading ALL metadata for each of the files into some database or index being built on the fly every time I pop into a new folder, even if I'm not using a view mode where I am asking to see those other bits of metadata? If so, that might make sense as I generally am using the network drive to navigate directories of my photographs, and they have a lot more categories of metadata associated with them than do Word docs and PDFs (e.g., date of picture, time of picture, aperture, shutter speed, exposure, etc.). Or, perhaps is Finder trying to load previews of ALL of the files whenever a directory request is made, so that bouncing through the previews takes less time? I sort of doubt that, because even after a directory listing finally comes up, it seems to churn a bit on each photo before the preview comes up, which I take as an indication that it's creating each preview only after a request is made for that particular file. Either way, I will say that in old WinXP and even in the newer Windows 7, if you want to view files in a Detailed setting where you can see other metadata (called "Attributes"), it definitely prioritizes giving you a directory listing, and then continues filling in the various selected Attributes one-by-one after that. Thus, if you want to sort by the date a photograph was taken (as opposed to its modified or created date, which seem to be default attributes that load as quickly (or nearly as quickly) as the filename), or by the photo's dimensions, it might take a few minutes to load in those attributes for a folder of a couple thousand pictures. But, critically, if you are not planning on using those attributes, but rather, merely want to see how many files you have in that folder, or select them all and load them into a photo viewer, you won't have to wait for the file system to load the file attributes before you get a listing of the folder's contents. It seems to me like the Finder, however, might actually be forcing you to wait until it has loaded all of those attributes.
Does the foregoing sound like a plausible explanation of the problem to those out there with knowledge of how Finder actually works? And if so, does that bring to mind any potential settings that could be turned off or any other work-arounds (since those I've tried have not fixed the issue)?
If anyone has other ideas, I am all ears. I am pretty annoyed that I sunk time into switching over to a Time Capsule on the assumption that Apple couldn't have had a bug this bad, only to find out that I was wrong. The biggest irony is that my old WinXP computer used to rip through the folder structures with ease on the MyBook, but my fully updated Air is practically crippled by the same task.

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The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Please take this step regardless of the results of Step 1.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
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