Mac keeps mounting mini server's external drive

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Mac keeps mounting mini server's external drive

I have 4 macs connected on my network to a mac mini server with a thunderbolt lacie drive atatched to it which I use as our working server drive.

I am trialing out timemachine on one of them and luckily it sees a backups drive and has been running time machine just fine. However, on the desktop, there appears to be lots and lots of drives which have been mounted for that external thunderbolt drive for some reason?

Trying to figure out why this is?

I think its doing it each time it runs time machine...

Any ideas?

Posted on Jan 28, 2013 3:24 AM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Jan 28, 2013 10:52 AM in response to Antonio Conte

Hi Antonio,

In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)

Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.

Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.

If it does contain data...

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474

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Answer 2

Antonio Conte Author

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Jan 28, 2013 3:11 PM in response to BDAqua

excellent, let me take a look...

On another note, on my mac mini server. for the life of me, I can't work out why my 3 external firewire plus the thunderbolt drive we use as the actual drive we all connect to one the network, just will not show either on the desktop OR in the left column of the finder?

I have gone into finder preferences and selected External disks and no joy. am I missing something? In fact, I'm fairly sure that at least the thunderbolt HD was showing when I first got it a week ago with teh mac mini.?

Superduper and disk utility CAN see tem and this is the ONLY way I can do a safe eject currently!

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Answer 3

BDAqua

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Jan 28, 2013 4:42 PM in response to Antonio Conte

Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.

Then move these files to the Desktop for now...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

Reboot & test.

PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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