Unable to access C drive on my Mac

rmcellig · 11-27-2003, 03:36 PM

I have two Macs. One is a G4 1.2.5 GHZ tower, and the other is a G4/400.

On the G4/400 when I open a finder window and click on the network icon, then open the MSHOME folder, I see an alias icon for my PC. When I go to open it and then see an alias for the Folder named C. It is not an alias. At least not what it is supposed to look like. The blue ball in a square enclosure. It is just a folder named C. When I open this folder instead of seeing the contents of my C drive, there is nothing. No files/ folders are displayed.

On the G4 1.2.5 GHZ tower, when I click on the network icon and open the MSHOME icon, I see the C icon alias. It looks like a blue ball in a square enclosure. I double click on it and I can see the contents of the C drive no problem.

What do I have to do to my G4/400 so that it works properly and I am able to see my C drive again?

I'm running 10.3.1 on both machines with over a GB of RAM on both.

rmcellig · 11-27-2003, 04:27 PM

I made my var/automount folder visible and threw out the two folders that resided in there. The C folder and the My Documents folder. When I restarted my Mac and reconnected to the PC through the finder window, all was well again.

Is there a shorter way of doing this? Maybe a way to disconnect from the PC without having to restart my Mac?

Is there maybe a Freeware utility out there that will do this?

jhillestad · 12-02-2003, 02:13 PM

Thanks for posting how you got the drive back, I ran into the exact same problem.

I used terminal to get at the file and removed the alias. I dont know what caused this to happen but if Apple allowed the user to simply "refresh" the network it would have probably solved it. I dont know how my c drive got turned into an alias link with nothing in it. I wishh panther would do what Jaguar did and put the connection on the desktop so I know I'm still mounted. Go figure...

hayne · 12-02-2003, 04:09 PM

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	Originally posted by jhillestad I dont know what caused this to happen but if Apple allowed the user to simply "refresh" the network it would have probably solved it. I dont know how my c drive got turned into an alias link with nothing in it. I wishh panther would do what Jaguar did and put the connection on the desktop so I know I'm still mounted.

I think this happens if the Windows share goes away (e.g. if you disconnect from the network) before you unmount the shared drive from your Mac.

And I think if you use "Connect to Server" from Finder's "Go" menu, the shared drive will appear as it did in Jaguar.

11-27-2003, 03:36 PM	#1
rmcellig Major Leaguer Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 436	Unable to access C drive on my Mac I have two Macs. One is a G4 1.2.5 GHZ tower, and the other is a G4/400. On the G4/400 when I open a finder window and click on the network icon, then open the MSHOME folder, I see an alias icon for my PC. When I go to open it and then see an alias for the Folder named C. It is not an alias. At least not what it is supposed to look like. The blue ball in a square enclosure. It is just a folder named C. When I open this folder instead of seeing the contents of my C drive, there is nothing. No files/ folders are displayed. On the G4 1.2.5 GHZ tower, when I click on the network icon and open the MSHOME icon, I see the C icon alias. It looks like a blue ball in a square enclosure. I double click on it and I can see the contents of the C drive no problem. What do I have to do to my G4/400 so that it works properly and I am able to see my C drive again? I'm running 10.3.1 on both machines with over a GB of RAM on both.

11-27-2003, 04:27 PM	#2
rmcellig Major Leaguer Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 436	Problem solved I made my var/automount folder visible and threw out the two folders that resided in there. The C folder and the My Documents folder. When I restarted my Mac and reconnected to the PC through the finder window, all was well again. Is there a shorter way of doing this? Maybe a way to disconnect from the PC without having to restart my Mac? Is there maybe a Freeware utility out there that will do this?

12-02-2003, 02:13 PM	#3
jhillestad Triple-A Player Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 141	Thanks for posting how you got the drive back, I ran into the exact same problem. I used terminal to get at the file and removed the alias. I dont know what caused this to happen but if Apple allowed the user to simply "refresh" the network it would have probably solved it. I dont know how my c drive got turned into an alias link with nothing in it. I wishh panther would do what Jaguar did and put the connection on the desktop so I know I'm still mounted. Go figure...