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  Harddrive Icon

  Posted by Lawrence Lim on April 25, 2011 at 9:47 pm

  I did some routine computer maintenance on my desktop using main menu recently and now when I have external harddrives plugged in the icon does not show up on desktop. The drives show up on the disk utility but not on the desktop. Is there something simple I am missing with my display preferences? The computer I am on is an older power PC dual core 2.0 running tiger. Any suggestions?
  Best,
  Lawrence

  Tim Smith replied 14 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Greenberg

  April 26, 2011 at 2:11 am

  Finder Preferences.
  General tab. Show these items on the desktop…

  That’s what’s missing.

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  Jeff G

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  Tim Smith

  July 22, 2011 at 10:11 am

  Lawrence,

  I’m sure Jeff’s solution will work,although I’ve never had a chance to try it.

  However another workaround I’ve used on occasions is to switch to another space (assuming you’ve got spaces enabled), and get the icon back that way.

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