Annoying pop-up error after moving external drive from Airport to direct connection

[jasonnorm]

I am hoping someone can help me with this as this is becoming a maddening experience !

I had a configuration where I had an external hard drive connected to my Airport Extreme and mounted as a network drive "External_1". I recently moved the drive from the Airport Connection to a direct connection (USB 2.0) to my iMac. Since that time, whenever I launch Finder (or PathFinder) I get the following pop-up message:

"Connection Failed.

The server may not exist or is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and try again"

I have disabled the Airport disk utility, verified that "External_1" is actually mounting correctly with the direct connection and after I click OK, the pop-up box appears 5 more times then everything seems fine. Until I have to launch finder again I have rebooted several times as well as restarted the Airport extreme several times. No luck

Obviously there is something cached somewhere telling my Finder to reconnect the network drive that was attached to the Airport Extreme but for the life of me I cannot find it. The airport's name is "eustis" and I have tried searching in spotlight for that as well as "External_1" to see if there are any cache files etc. I have been unable to find anything that would explain what is happening.

Anyone have any ideas? This is starting to drive me crazy!!

I am running OS X (latest version with all updates) and the latest version of all of the Airport Extreme updates.

Thanks!
Jason

 

[jasonnorm]

In case anyone is curious, I have resolved the problem. Cause was actually quite simple. I had an alias in my users home dir that was created when the drive was attached to the Airport Extreme to a directory on that drive. After deleting the alias, the errors no longer occur.