Why does my "Macintosh HD" icon reappear in a different location?

I don't know why it happened but when I fired up my MBP this morning the HD icon (and the External HD icon for that matter) were placed in a seemingly random location on the display. Why?

Put them back where you had them and/or use:
Finder>View>Clean up Selection or Arrange By
Repair permissions & restart your computer.
Or just hide the HDs
Finder>Preferences>General
Show these items on the desktop: Uncheck hard disks
This way you don't have to worry about them "appearing" in a different place.

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