Mac hard drive icon
Mac hard drive icon is an ipod icon why is this so and how do I change it back?
Or try this:
Select the HD - and Get Info (Apple-I).
Click on the Icon in the Info Pane you just brought up.
Press Apple-X.
That should revert the icon to the default resource file .icns icon normally associated with that drive.
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How can I find the Mac Hard Drive Icon in Finder?
Why don't I see an Icon for my Mac HD in Finder? Also, should there be a file "Printer Setup Utility" in the Utility file?
To show Macintosh HD in the Finder sidebar, open a Finder window, go to Finder menu (on the menu bar) > Preferences > Sidebar, and tick "Hard disks". It will show in the Finder sidebar, under "Devices".
If you want to show it in Desktop, open Finder menu (on the menu bar) > Preferences > General, and tick "Hard disks".
Respecting to Printer Setup Utility, it doesn't come by default in OS X Mountain Lion. After adding a printer, it's possible that some printer utilities get added, and one of them may be Printer Setup Utility -
I have an old MacBook (2006?) with OS 10.5.8 that I would like to upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which I have on DVD. When asked to select what disk I would like to install the upgrade to, my only option is the Mac Hard Drive icon with a big yellow triangle/exclamation point saying I cannot install there because I am running Time Machine on that disk.
I have run searches using "Find" for any vestige of Time Machine left on my computer. I have deleted the icon from my dock. I have tried to run disk utility to delete just the Time Machine but can't target just that. I have rebooted after each of these steps. Nothing changes.
It is Kafka-esque because I need to upgrade my OS so that I can upgrade my browser so I can read the question section of apple.com related to upgrading to Snow Leopard.
Thanks for any help you can give.Thanks, seventy one. I do have everything backed up everything to an external hard drive, plus the most important stuff also on Dropbox. Given the age of this laptop, and given that I've been the sole owner and almost the sole user, I'm mystified as to why/how Time Machine is on my internal hard drive. I agree with you that it would defeat its purpose to back up files to the computer they're already on! It reminds me of the time a friend of mine put a bucket under his sink because there was a big leak in the pipe that was splashing into the cupboard. When the bucket was full, he took it out from under the sink and poured it down the sink to empty it. Ooops. Using Time Machine to back up files on the same computer it's installed on feels the same to me.
It's interesting because I've found versions of my question posted by many other users, but I can't find an adequate response. Mostly, there are responses that don't directly address the problem, which in turn are rated by the petitioners as 50% or so helpful.
I'm not sure what I'll do beyond searching a little more on the web and sleeping on it. In all seriousness, though, thank you for your help and suggestions. These Apple Help Boards are amazing, in large part owing to people like you who respond to strange plaints like my own. -
Time Machine Linked to New Upgraded Mac Hard Drive
I recently upgraded my Mac hard drive. Unfortunately, Time Machine linked to the new hard drive. My computer hard drive icon now shows up as a Time Machine back-up drive.
I went into Time Machine preferences and changed the back-up drive to my regular external back-up hard drive. When I go into Time Machine Preferences - Select Disk my external back-up hard drive is the only drive listed.
However, my Mac hard drive icon still shows up with the blue Time Machine back-up icon. Any ideas how to unlink my Mac hard drive from Time Machine so that it shows up in the Finder window with the typical gray hard drive icon instead of the blue Time Machine icon?felicityrose wrote:
the replacement computer I wanted (and have not gotten) is a new unibody macbook, which does not have Firewire
Does your drive also have a USB connection? Many F/W drives do. If so, you can do it directly. While USB is slower than FireWire, it's a whole lot faster than wireless.
Can I just drag the whole back-up file from my hard drive onto the friend's computer and then connect via wireless?
No, that won't work.
Depending on what kind of Mac your friend has, you might be able to copy the whole drive to a USB drive via Disk Utility, then migrate from there to your new computer.
Or is this an impossible dream and I am better off taking it in to the experts?
Yes. Absolutely. Entirely. It will be well worth the wait. -
after running mac tuneup got a red dot on the hard drive icon, nothing would respond, now on restart cant get past white screen with apple logo, mac tune up disk still in laptop
Restart your MBP holding the trackpad down and hopefully the disk will be ejected. Then try to return it and get a refund or put it in the trash. There is nothing that software does for your MBP that you cannot do yourself or with free software.
If can get your MBP started, delete all traces of the offending software. Worst case is that you may have to erase the HDD and reload the OS and your user data. I trust that you have a backup (minus MacTuneUp).
Courcoul has given you his opinion in a very succinct manner, and as you might surmise, I agree with him.
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My Mac Tower missing 2nd built in hard drive icon from the top right corner of my monitor?
Not sure why but my second built in hard drive icon is no longer there. Anybody know how to get it back.
MAC OS X 10.6.8 Mac tower with two built in hard drive.First launch disk utility, then see if both drives are showing up in the left column area of the screen if you see your second hard drive try clicking on it then click repair. Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1782?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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Hi, never used support before - here goes!
My Mac G4 MDD no longer shows the start up hard drive icon. The one with all my files on!
It shows the other 3 hard drive icons and boots up OK.
Has my start up hard drive failed? Can it be fixed?
Thanks.
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,6
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.2)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.5.7f1Doesn't sound like any hard drive failure to me - more a Finder preference.
Finder -> Preferences -> General -> Show these items on the desktop -> Hard disks
The startup disk is sometimes treated differently from other disks (such as external and network disks) and I'm guessing this is a simple preference setting, although I might be wrong. -
I have an alias of one of my external hard drives in my trash. When I tried to delete it, it showed that I was deleting 80,000 files and counting. I stopped the delete process and when I clicked on "show original" all my external H.D.'s and my Mac hard drive show up. How do I delete this alias from the trash without loosing all my files? When I tried to drag it back to the desk top, it just made a duplicate and remained in the trash. When I turned off the external H.D., the trash was then empty. Tried rebooting the computer and then turning the external hard drive back on and the alias shows up in the trash again. Much help appreciated.
RichIn Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474 -
I recently added my old mac hard drive to a new macbook with an SSD as my main OSX drive. I am having trouble with permissions in viewing my old hard drive, when I save a permission when I reboot the full access is changed again . What is the best way to get complete access to my old hd installed in my new Macbook?
Open the Get Info window for the old drive. Click the Lock icon on the bottom of that window and type in your password. In the permissions area click the Plus sign ( + ) and Add your Username to it and set it to Read & Write. Close that window. you should now have full access to all the files.
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Finder & Dock do not work - Mac Hard Drive does not appear on Desktop
Until yesterday, my powerbook was working properly.
This morning, I wanted to use it and I had the following problems after login.
1/ My Mac Hard drive does not appear on my dekstop
2/ My dock appears but no icon works when I click on them. So, I can't open finder. I have no response.
3/ Furthermore, my top bar (with clock, login name, Airport icon...) appears but it is frozed.
I try several solutions as :
- rebooting in safe mode,
- rebooting, with in the same time, hold different keys (option, apple, p & R)...
As of today, no solution works.
Thanks for your help.A.CHAMP wrote:
Nota: if i used my daugther login (she is not admin), I have the same issues.
Ok, that's good enough. You may be able to repair this with the 10.5.8 Combo Update This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
EDIT:
I have around 5 Go space left on my Mac
Also, your getting very low on disk space. Try to copy some of the data off to other media. *Do it before you try applying the combo, you'll need the space.*
-mj
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How in the HECK can I change my Hard Drive icon??!??!!
I've tried searching these discussion forums for how to do this, but the question has always remained unanswered! Does ANYbody know how to use this? I'd buy applecare but I'm a student and can't afford it. Would somebody please figure out how to make it so that you can paste a new icon on top of the standard icon for 10.3.9? It's driving me crazy that after I copy the icon I want to use for my hard drive that I can't paste it on top.
And I've tried doing a permissions repair in Disk Utility.
400 MHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)That's how other people do it, HVlaar; it's the standard procedure. Works fine for me. Are you logged into an admin account? Have you considered that changing your hard drive icon probably isn't an important thing to do anyway?
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New iMac and not a computer whiz. I have a new iMac with an external drive. I am trying to load an old Mac game on it. The Age of Empires icon tells me to drag it to the hard drive icon. Where is that? I have tried finder and launch pad. No luck.
Choose Computer from the Finder's Go menu and find the internal drive.
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Two hard drive icons on my desktop, would like to have only one...
Hello everyone, I recently got a PowerMac G5 (I think it's a 2.3 GHz). It came with a hard drive inserted 'Untitled', which came from my old 1.6 GHz G5. On the desktop though, I get two hard drive icons, my main start up drive called 'Untitled', and another one called 'Spare'. I was told that my G5 has only one drive inserted 'Untitled', so I'm trying to either get rid of 'Spare', or merge it somehow into 'Untitled'. Under the Volumes folder, I was not really able to get rid of it, is this something to do with Disk Utility?
BDAqua - under Get Info, when I was on Leopard, I tried changing a User Permissions category called 'Everybody' from Read Only to Read and Write. Upon restart two days later, Leopard would not start up (loads of writing on the screen, with the Mac power button, asking me to restart). To cut a long story, I am now back on Tiger lol (Leopard issues for another discussion lol), so now I dare not play with anything which says Read Only, especially when it's probably not even necessary. I am writing this from the library, so don't know what exactly it says in Get Info - User Permissions for either drive at the moment. If this is relevant, I can have a look later and post back, I'll also verify permissions in Disk Utility for both drives, but I think they are fine. Actually, when I was on Leopard, my 'Untitled' drive took ages to verify permissions, and always loads of writing appeared! Now that I'm on Tiger, the other day when I verified Disk Permissions, it was quick and fine!
Thank you
In the screen shots, 'Untitled' is model ST31, 'Spare' is model WDCHi BDAqua, sorry I should have just opened it in the first place! I don't know why that man told me there was only one hard drive inside, perhaps a misunderstanding.
It seems that there are actually two hard drives inside, one in A, and one in B (see photo)! So, if this is the case, I don't have a problem with the two hard drive icons.
I guess if a G5 shows two hard drives on the desktop, then there's two hard drives in the machine!
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Hard Drive Icon (Macintosh HD) Disappeared - How do I get it back
Hi,
My Macintosh HD Icon that has been at the top right of my desktop forever is gone. Anyone know how to restore it? Getting to the hard drive now is a pain.
Thanks.I am not sure how the OS puts the hard drive icon onto the desktop. But, one thing you could do is to peak inside the /Volumes directory to see what is listed there in regards to your hard drive. To do that, start the terminal app from the utilities folder. Then, copy and paste this command into the terminal window:
ls -al /Volumes (followed by a return)
Then, please copy and paste the results into another post.
The results that I get are:
drwxrwxrwt 4 root admin 136 Nov 24 19:32 .
drwxrwxr-t 41 root admin 1496 Nov 15 18:50 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 rich admin 6148 Nov 24 19:32 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Nov 15 18:51 eMac Hard Drive -> /
where eMac Hard Drive is the name for my hard drive. If your results do not look similar, perhaps there is a problem that can be fixed here.
Rich
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) -
Hard Drive icon gone to lines on Desktop
In the last hour my Macintosh Hard Drive icon on the desktop has gone to a series of lines under the picture of the HD. I've restarted a few times just to see if it was a small glitch but its still the same. Does anyone know how to bring the wrods "macintosh hard drive" back to life ? I've only had this a few days and already getting problems.
Paul.You can go clean all of them, including font cache. Restart your computer about 3 or 4 times after it. The first reboot will take awhile, as the cache files are being rebuilt.
-Bmer
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