Internal Drive won't appear in Sidebar; DiskUtil sees it.

acme · 04-28-2012, 05:09 PM

Anything that can account for this? I have 2 Hitachi Fireball internal drives, aside from the drive that came with this Mac Pro. At some point yesterday, the icon for one of them ceased appearing in the side bar. Disc Utility sees it, Disc Warrior sees it and says it's OK.

When this happened before, simply powering down, opening the MPro and changing the drive's position fixed it...

...but why is the drive not showing itself in the first place?

thank you,

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NaOH · 04-28-2012, 05:47 PM

Try toggling the option for Finder > Preferences > Sidebar > External Disks. If that has no effect, I would try removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. You may need to follow that one with a log out or restart.

acme · 04-28-2012, 06:27 PM

NaOH... Idea #1 worked...no clue how but there was a " - " where there should have been a check mark on "Hard Disks."

thank you!

a

NaOH · 04-28-2012, 06:38 PM

Just remember the hyphen will be shown instead of the checkmark if any external hard drive has been manually removed from the sidebar.

acme · 04-28-2012, 07:46 PM

ah..I think what may have happened is that I accidentally moused it off...can't think how else...

thank you, NaOH

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04-28-2012, 05:09 PM	#1
acme MVP Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,686	Internal Drive won't appear in Sidebar; DiskUtil sees it. Anything that can account for this? I have 2 Hitachi Fireball internal drives, aside from the drive that came with this Mac Pro. At some point yesterday, the icon for one of them ceased appearing in the side bar. Disc Utility sees it, Disc Warrior sees it and says it's OK. When this happened before, simply powering down, opening the MPro and changing the drive's position fixed it... ...but why is the drive not showing itself in the first place? thank you, a

04-28-2012, 05:47 PM	#2
NaOH Hall of Famer Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,642	Try toggling the option for Finder > Preferences > Sidebar > External Disks. If that has no effect, I would try removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. You may need to follow that one with a log out or restart.

04-28-2012, 06:27 PM	#3
acme MVP Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,686	NaOH... Idea #1 worked...no clue how but there was a " - " where there should have been a check mark on "Hard Disks." thank you! a

04-28-2012, 06:38 PM	#4
NaOH Hall of Famer Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,642	Just remember the hyphen will be shown instead of the checkmark if any external hard drive has been manually removed from the sidebar.

04-28-2012, 07:46 PM	#5
acme MVP Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,686	ah..I think what may have happened is that I accidentally moused it off...can't think how else... thank you, NaOH