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Weird Finder Quark

Enigmafan420

Enigmafan420

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Apr 18, 2008
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About a month ago, when booting any of my Macs that use time machine, finder displays the contents of my Time Machine HD (it is a WD attached to an APE).

This never happened before. It is no big deal, but does anyone know why it is restoring this window each time I reboot?
 
My mother had a similar problem a while back. It turned out that the folder in question was listed in her account's startup items. To check, take a look under :apple: -> System Preferences -> Accounts -> Startup Items.

Oh yeah, I was going to make a sarcastic comment about subatomic particles, but it's just not coming.
 
BlueRevolution said:
My mother had a similar problem a while back. It turned out that the folder in question was listed in her account's startup items. To check, take a look under :apple: -> System Preferences -> Accounts -> Startup Items.

Oh yeah, I was going to make a sarcastic comment about subatomic particles, but it's just not coming.
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Thanks I tried that-when I unchecked the box next to the hard drive icon and rebooted, the hard drive icon disappeared on reboot-but the finder window showing its contents still popped up.

UGG, Could this be a setting in the Airport Extreme itself?
 
(Sorry, that should have been Login Items. I was posting from my iPod Touch, so I don't have the window in front of me.)

Unchecking the entry is not enough. Select it and click the –*button at the bottom of the frame.
 
Enigmafan420 said:
Thanks I tried that-when I unchecked the box next to the hard drive icon and rebooted, the hard drive icon disappeared on reboot-but the finder window showing its contents still popped up.

UGG, Could this be a setting in the Airport Extreme itself?
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The checkbox is just whether it should start hidden or not. You want to remove it from the list altogether.
 
devburke said:
The checkbox is just whether it should start hidden or not. You want to remove it from the list altogether.
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Except, I NEED the HD to mount automatically each boot up or my time machine doesn't work.

I have the HD hooked to an Airport Extreme and this was the only way I could get it to mount on each boot-up.

I am using it as Network Attached Storage, using time machine from multiple Macs and one central storage location.

Am I not doing the whole thing correctly?
 
Darth.Titan said:
As the others said, REMOVE the drive from the Login Items. It will still mount and be available at boot like you want.
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This worked-thanks. I know when I did it the first time, it did not work. Finder did not see the network drive until I had manually mounted it. It is however finding it now, even though I have removed it from my start-up items.
 
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