Macintosh HD twice in the sidebar

Just click and hold on one of the HD icons and drag it to the desktop and let go...

It will poof......... gone........

If you do this & select the wrong (real) volume from the "DEVICES" list, it will sometimes disappear from the sidebar. If this happens, open Finder preferences to the sidebar tab & check the appropriate 'disks' checkbox (Hard Disks or External Disks) to get it back onto the sidebar.

The checkbox should at first display a "-" (the minus sign) instead of the expected "✓" (the check-mark) if this happens. Clicking on the checkbox should restore the "✓" -- if it instead clears the checkbox, click again & the "✓" should appear.

same thing happens here. it's always after i've connected my external hd (firewire) and then ejected it. the drive is partitioned so it shows up as two drives, when i eject all, usually i end up with two 'macintosh hd' in the finder sidebar.

I see this problem when I unmount an internal disk as well. Seems to be a Finder bug.

Usually this is caused by a corrupted Launch Services database. To rebuild it download a utility such as Cocktail, Leopard Cache Cleaner or Onyx, run that function then restart the computer.

Been there, done that -- it does not help.

i hope this is fixed in 10.5.2

1. Deep cleaning of all caches with Leopard Cache Cleaner 4.0.4 and re-starting does not fix the problem with OS 10.5.1 on my PowerPC (Dual G5 2.0).
2. Disk Utility's two repair options do not help, nor does TechTool Pro or DiskWarrior.


What's puzzling is that if I log out and into my test account and then log back into my normal account, the ghost hard drive volumes are no longer there. But if I re-start the Mac, they're back.

Does anyone know whether 10.5.2 fixes this problem?