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Q: Extra Harddrive showing up on desktop?

Yesterday, a hard drive device that I've never seen before showed up on the desktop of my Mac. The name of it is just a bunch of zeros. Inside it are some files that I recognize from at least 2 years ago, but are from an external drive that I don't even have anymore. Does anyone know what this might be or where it came from?

Mac Pro

Posted on Jan 12, 2016 9:50 AM

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  • by BDAqua,Helpful

    BDAqua BDAqua Jan 12, 2016 11:21 AM in response to aeyorka
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    Jan 12, 2016 11:21 AM in response to aeyorka

    It may have been accidentally renamed...

     

    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

  • by aeyorka,

    aeyorka aeyorka Jan 12, 2016 11:22 AM in response to BDAqua
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    Jan 12, 2016 11:22 AM in response to BDAqua

    Thank you so much!!!! I think that's exactly what happened!

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Jan 12, 2016 11:43 AM in response to aeyorka
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    Jan 12, 2016 11:43 AM in response to aeyorka

    Not the renaming, but the spurious Volume is usually caused by loosing a connection while transferring files to/from an external drive... the Finder will continue with a local copy.