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Hard Drive doesn't show in Finder (on the desktop, in the sidebar...etc.)

For some reason, I logged into my computer one day and noticed that my hard drive (originally called "Hero") did not show on the desktop, the sidebar in the Finder window, or anywhere else. It is found by Disk Utility, but for some reason it's not on the desktop. I've tried typing in Terminal:

--defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
--killall Dock

All that does is show a bunch of random files, but it also shows my hard drive on the desktop. Of course, I don't want all these random files on my computer so I reversed it and the hard drive disappeared. In the Finder Preferences, the hard drive is checked as shown, but it's not there. I really don't want to reinstall OS X 10.5.4, but will I have to?

T-T Heeelp~

Mac Book, Mac OS X (10.5.4), 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Jul 16, 2008 6:41 PM

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Posted on Jul 16, 2008 9:48 PM

Open Finder Preferences. Is the option to show disks on the Desktop checked?
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Aug 22, 2008 4:49 AM in response to Christoph Lichtenberg

To make the Hard Drive show up on the desktop:

Go to the Finder
Press Apple-Comma
Click the general tab (if you're not already in it)
There should be a checkbox named hard disks. Check it.
Now your hard drive will show up on your desktop

To make the Hard Drive show up in the sidebar in the Finder:
Open a new Finder window
Drag the icon for your hard drive on the desktop into the sidebar of the new window
It should appear in the sidebar for all windows.

Sorry if either of these doesn't work, as I do not have access to a leopard machine to test them at this moment.

Hope this helps,
Shep

Aug 22, 2008 7:01 AM in response to askmiiuu

Thanks a lot for your nice help. But - naturally, because I'm not a newbie - I checked and unchecked an rechecked ... all the boxes.

But I found out what was wrong: Something / someone / some programm - I'm sure that it wasn't me! - changed all of the drives files to "hidden". By using the terminal-line posted above,

chflags nohidden /Volumes/"my_drive"

the problem was solved.

🙂

Message was edited by: Christoph Lichtenberg

Nov 13, 2008 1:12 PM in response to CaptSaltyJack

When I type this is get a message saying...No such file:/volumes exsit.

But I know the Hard Drive is there.

I've also checked appropriate boxes in the finder preferences but that doesn't do anything.

I reformatted one of my spare drives (as this wasn't showing up) it actually showed up, but when I restarted my machine it disappeared again.

Hard Drive doesn't show in Finder (on the desktop, in the sidebar...etc.)

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