OSX: If your Library Drive gets it’s mount point changed, and Nothing Links Anymore…
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Jeremiah Moore
Mar 3, 2017, 6:15:29 PM3/3/17
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Happened to me today, no files would be seen.
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SM launches fine, but no files are linked.
In deeper dive, I see the computer sees my drive ordinarily called “Library” as “Library 1”.
What happened:
A dirty drive unmount of Library somehow caused a FOLDER called “Library” to be created inside /Volumes.
The fix:
In Finder, type shift-cmd-G, type /Volumes
Seek folder w/ drive name and if present, delete it.
You will need to enter password.
Unmount/Remount disk using disk utility.
Voila.
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cheers!
-jeremiah
ps - what’s going on, codedestructor.com/forum is not displaying a forum.
jeremiah moore | SOUND | San Francisco
The TANK Center for Sonic Arts | Rangely, Colorado
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Nathaniel Reichman
Mar 3, 2017, 11:11:16 PM3/3/17
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I have online drives called NAME, and backup drives called NAME-. When I’m swapping drives, sometimes I accidentally get two drives with the same name. The Volume mount point gets changed to NAME 1 for one of the drives, causing SM confusion. Simply fixing the duplicate drive name and rebooting has always taken care of it for me. Interesting discussion thread on Apple. Thanks for posting.
Jeremiah Moore
Mar 3, 2017, 11:35:09 PM3/3/17
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I was able to correct the problem without rebooting even.
- Unmount “DRIVE 1” (which should be called “DRIVE”
- Delete folder Volumes/DRIVE
- Mount “DRIVE”
I also quit Soundminer (I run in “freelancer mode” w/ database on “DRIVE”)
(Incidentally, I backup systems with Crashplan, and specifically target the Soundminer Support folder on library drive. Has saved me several times when I got database corruption I could roll back to old.)
-j
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