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
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...
Thank you so much!!!! I think that's exactly what happened!
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. 🙂
Extra Harddrive showing up on desktop?
