How can I restore the Finder Sidebar Icon for my shared device?

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How can I restore the Finder Sidebar Icon for my shared device?

After upgrading to El Capitan, the icon for my NAS has changed to a question mark. How can I recover the old icon or replace the question mark with one less annoying than a question mark?

I can connect to device OK but having it represented as a question mark grabs my attention too much as it suggests something less trivial is wrong.

See the nice little picture of my Time Capsule in the Finder sidebar? And the Mac Mini server looks very pretty! But the LaCie NAS looks well naff.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 31, 2015 10:52 AM

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Trismegister Author

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Oct 31, 2015 11:16 AM in response to Trismegister

Well, the NAS has been shown as a question mark for days and days - since I upgraded to El Capitan.

So I ejected the NAS - not for the first time - and ⌘+K (Connect to Server) connected to the NAS afresh.

I had the info panel open still as shown in the screenshot. Lo and behold the "Preview" changed from a question mark into a 1990's VDU - Wow! There's progress for you. OK I can go and get a life now ... I shan't wonder how to make the Preview Icon look less like something out of the Science Museum's display case!

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Trismegister Author

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Oct 31, 2015 12:12 PM in response to Trismegister

Oh ... it's gone again!

The 1990's VDU image has been replaced by the Question Mark.

Because the NAS's disk has gone to sleep?

Anyway it's an inconsistency in El Capitan that didn't used to exist in the last two OS X Versions.

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