After updating to Sonoma 14.4 on my 2020 27-inch iMac, no hard-drive icons will appear on the desktop, including the internal drive.
The drives are mounting fine and appear in Disk Utility. They just don't show up on the desktop. I have checked all the obvious Finder Settings and ticked to have drives 'show up on desktop'.
Can anyone help? Thanks!
MacBook Pro 13″
You might try a restart, or even a safe start.
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
My wife had this problem with a Time Machine drive, and it was due (I guess) to being formatted HFS+, once reformatted to APFS and re-inited by Time Machine, it was fine.
Try turning off Stage Manager.
If the above doesn't work, select the finder, clock on the Finder in the upper menu, go down to the Settings link and click on it. That opens the window where you can click on what is to be displayed.
Thank you 6x6! That has sorted my problem.
Be warned everyone, 'Stage Manager' is a strange and I suspect little-used control pannel which turned itself on when I updated to 14.1. It can really mess up your desktop if you don't know it's there. You can find it in 'System Settings' - then - 'Finder and Dock'. Have a look.
Thanks!
You are welcome!
Hard Drive Icons Not Showing on the Desktop
