Sudden duplicates of volumes (10.13.6)

Hi there, my MacPro 5,1 (10.13.6) ran smoothly until a few day ago. Emptying trash with only a few Kb took a minute and then I noticed that my Nvidia prefpane was missing in the top toolbar. The Cuda prefpane was accessible in the prefpanes but the Nvidia Driver Manager wasn't. Investigating further and I then noticed that most of my connected volumes got copies. The original volumes got an 1 behind their names.

After some searching I found this thread: https://superuser.com/questions/657295/osx-duplicated-and-re-numbered-my-drive-in-volumes

I went through the process and now only my startup volume shows up as an alias in /Volumes but not on the desktop. I can control click and Show Original. The symptoms described above are still there. Here's the EtreCheck report:

EtreCheck report

How can I fix this? TIA Edit: typo.

Posted on Jul 20, 2021 3:06 AM

36 replies

Jul 28, 2021 6:33 AM in response to BDAqua

Silly, I overlooked that one as I already fixed Gatekeeper. Thanks!

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Jul 28, 2021 6:42 AM in response to Server rookie

You're welcome, glad I can still be useful once in awhile! :)

Jul 28, 2021 6:59 AM in response to BDAqua

Much appreciated BDAqua! I only have to fix the launching of Creative Cloud app (the normal CC apps work) and a few minor other things. But at least I can work again. Thanks!

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Jul 28, 2021 7:41 AM in response to Server rookie

Great to hear, take care my friend! :)

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Jul 23, 2021 8:17 AM in response to Server rookie

Try reinstalling this in Safe Mode, but not using Firefox as it’ll mess things up…

https://itunes.apple.com/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup).

Seems to fix about 90% of the problems.

Jul 26, 2021 7:11 PM in response to BDAqua

Some progress. I installed 10.13.6 from a flashdrive onto the 2nd ssd. Also copied over my stuff from the main ssd during installation. On this ssd I was able to install security updates 220-005 and 2020-006 and the Nvidia web driver. Still lot's of things to sort out but first some sleep.

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Sudden duplicates of volumes (10.13.6)