Macintosh HD Icon gone!

Has anyone come up with an answer to resolve this? I'm tired of running that Apple Script that sets the Macintosh HD Volume to 'Visible.'
What happened? What made the Volume disappear?

If you have used Get Info on the drive and added a Spotlight comment, then, after a Spotlight Index the drive icon will be hidden.
You can determine if you have that problem by doing the unhidden to show the icon then to enter
ls -al@ /Volumes/clintbackup
If from the results you see a "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment" then you have the Spotlight comment problem.
If you have that problem you can type the following
cd /Volumes/the name of your drive
xattr -d com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment .
Note the space and the . at the end of the last line - they are needed.

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