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I have a pair of seagate external 3tb drives, each hooked to a different machine, one on 10.9.2 (Mac Mini) and one on 10.8.5. (iMac) The drives are not showing up in the finder anymore. You can access the drives normally from another machine over then network just fine. You also can launch disk utility, the drives will show up fine there, and if you right click on them in disk util and select "open drive" or whatever it's called, a window will open in the finder of the drive.
Other external drives mount up just fine in the finder on both machines, the finder prefs are set properly to show externals on the desktop and sidebar. (And other externals do mount fine on the desktop/finder window sidebars).
On the mini typing "diskutil list | open -ef" and "ls -@AOen /V* | open -ef" gets me these readouts respectively. It appears the drive is hidden somehow. (red underlines added by Text Edit, not me)
Typing that on the iMac gets me the same results, I'm just sitting at the mini for the moment.
Any idea's how to get my drives back visible? The drives work fine once I get a finder window open through the disk util trick or over the network.
Thanks in advance.
/edit In terminal typing "ls /Volumes" will also list all my drives, but in finder -> go /Volumes will bring up a window without my external drive.
Double Edit:
Typing:
sudo chflags nohidden /Volumes/"name-of-missing-drive"
in terminal brought my drives back to the land of the visible.
I have a pair of seagate external 3tb drives, each hooked to a different machine, one on 10.9.2 (Mac Mini) and one on 10.8.5. (iMac) The drives are not showing up in the finder anymore. You can access the drives normally from another machine over then network just fine. You also can launch disk utility, the drives will show up fine there, and if you right click on them in disk util and select "open drive" or whatever it's called, a window will open in the finder of the drive.
Other external drives mount up just fine in the finder on both machines, the finder prefs are set properly to show externals on the desktop and sidebar. (And other externals do mount fine on the desktop/finder window sidebars).
On the mini typing "diskutil list | open -ef" and "ls -@AOen /V* | open -ef" gets me these readouts respectively. It appears the drive is hidden somehow. (red underlines added by Text Edit, not me)
Typing that on the iMac gets me the same results, I'm just sitting at the mini for the moment.
Any idea's how to get my drives back visible? The drives work fine once I get a finder window open through the disk util trick or over the network.
Thanks in advance.
/edit In terminal typing "ls /Volumes" will also list all my drives, but in finder -> go /Volumes will bring up a window without my external drive.
Double Edit:
Typing:
sudo chflags nohidden /Volumes/"name-of-missing-drive"
in terminal brought my drives back to the land of the visible.
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