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I actually have this weird problem since a very long time but never managed to find a fix for it so now I thought it would be time to ask someone else!
Look at this picture click and see that there are 7 different disks/partitions on the desktop but in the terminal you see a list of 8 because the disk "DriveThru" also exists as "DriveThru 1"!
"DriveThru does only contain a folder called "New" (which you can also see in the terminal) but the actual content of the "real" "DriveThru" is in "DriveThru 1" (the folder "New" is only a part of the actual content)!


I have no idea why this is like that and it always made me think that there is something really bad going on! I never really had problems with it though!

Does anyone have an idea how to get rid of this problem without reformatting? I have about 500GB of total diskspace on 5 HDs and there is no chance of making a backup! :/

Thanks!

[scoot]

At some point in the past, "DriveThru" was remounted, though the original "DriveThru" mountpoint had not been removed. Since /Volumes/DriveThru was already present, the system created /Volumes/DriveThru 1 and mounted your drivethru partition there instead.

Unmount Drivethru (drag it to the trash). Other partitions besides your boot partition may also unmount when you do this.
Remove the folder /Volumes/Drivethru (make sure it still only contains "new".
Remount Drivethru (or just restart).
It should be back to normal.

[badidea]

Originally posted by scoot:
At some point in the past, "DriveThru" was remounted, though the original "DriveThru" mountpoint had not been removed. Since /Volumes/DriveThru was already present, the system created /Volumes/DriveThru 1 and mounted your drivethru partition there instead.

Unmount Drivethru (drag it to the trash). Other partitions besides your boot partition may also unmount when you do this.
Remove the folder /Volumes/Drivethru (make sure it still only contains "new".
Remount Drivethru (or just restart).
It should be back to normal.

Do you mean that I should remove the folder /Volumes/Drivethru with the rm command in the terminal?
I will try that, when I get home...thanks!!

Ohh, I forgot, most of my partitons are not unmountable (they do not have the "unmount icon" next to them in a finder window)! DriveThru is one of them, I think...
Those HDs/partitions are NOT unmountable: OSX (we all know why), Studio54 (because it contains OS 10.2.8 and I think it therefor shares some fonts with the active 10.3.3!??), Swapdisk (because of the swap folder!?), DriveThru (don't know why!), Classic (also the font problem??)...
FastFood and BigMac should be unmountable because they only contain apps and data!

I'll see what I can do and will report back!

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Thanks again - it worked!

What's the difference between doing the "rm -R" command in the terminal and logging in as root and trashing the "DriveThru" folder from the .Volumes directory? I am pretty sure that I have already tried that some months ago!