Finder Sidebar icons for SSDs shows wrong icon

I am running Tahoe for my MacOS. In the Finder Sidebar, the icons for my external SSDs are appearing as Hookmark icons rather than a SSD icon. How do I fix this?

Mac mini, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 25, 2025 9:45 AM

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Jerry Johnson Author

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Posted on Sep 25, 2025 12:53 PM

Hookmark is an app that is installed on my computer. The only way to get rid of the Hookmark icons is to go to System Settings > Extensions > Hookmark, and then click the "i" button (information). Then turn off "File Provider" and then relaunch the Finder. As you can see from the screenshot below, turning off the File Provider disables the ability to "see local files and remote storage files in one view in Finder." It's not the end of the world by disabling that, but it would be nice if I didn't have to disable the Finder Provider feature in Hookmark.

I realize I can also hide the icons of the SSDs in the sidebar, but again, that's not really fixing the root problem.

You asked if this affects performance in any way. No, it doesn't; it's just a little bit of a nuisance.

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Nov 18, 2025 8:23 PM in response to deanblackketter

deanblackketter wrote:

In my case BetterTouchTool is the app that shows up in the Finder sidebar in place of the correct icons.

Simply moving that app to the trash and reopening the Finder window seems to fix it temporarily.

Moving the app back to the Applications directory brings the incorrect icon back.

Deleting the app and re-installing it also brings it right back.

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The search continues...

Why does the search continue? It seems you have located the problem. Step back & look at what you wrote here. It is clear as day, but you may be too close to the problem to see it.

The third party software is causing this problem. Contact the developer of that app for assistance & to inform them of the issue so they can provide a fix. It is up to third party developers to make sure their apps work with macOS whenever Apple makes any changes to the OS. Unless users report the issue to those third party developers, then those developers may never be aware of a problem.

mhtemple

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Nov 19, 2025 10:09 AM in response to mcasabar0517

Did you see that DxO has posted a fix for this?

https://forum.dxo.com/t/pr-icon-showing-for-all-removable-volumes-on-macos/52159

I found that I had to uninstall -- the method of turning off the extension through system settings and relaunching finder didn't do it. Maybe rebooting would have. -- I didn't test that.

VikingOSX

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Sep 25, 2025 10:01 AM in response to Jerry Johnson

Whatever is displayed in the Tahoe Finder sidebar, you cannot change its image anyway. All of my mounted SSD drives display in the following representation:

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Finder Sidebar icons for SSDs shows wrong icon