[Douglashh]

I recently upgraded to Tiger 10.4.3. I have a FW Hard drive that I use for backup of my complete system. After using Tiger for about a month I decided to clone it to my FW Hard drive where I previously had Panther 10.3.9.

I used Disk Utility to erase my FW HD. Then I repaired permissions and used DeJa Vu to clone my internal HD to the FW HD. Everything went smoothly. I tried booting up using the FW HD and it booted just fine. I repaired permissions and then used System Preferences and selected my internal HD as the startup disk.

When I restarted there was no Hard Drive showing in my Finder Side Bar even though I have it selected to do so. I checked show HD on the desk top and it won't show up there either.

How do I get my Hard Drive back in the Side Panel? I should also add that my FW HD doesn't show up in the Side Bar either. I can see it in Disk Utility and I can select it in System Preferences Startup Disk and I can boot up using the FW HD too it just won't show up in the Side Bar.

Another weird thing is that if I select a folder or application and go to GetInfo it just says /Applications etc. I used to say HD/Applications/ etc. Now when I boot with either my HD or FW HD and select a folder and GetInfo it does not show HD/ or FW HD/

Anyone know what's going on here. I've repaired permissions, run Disk Utility on both HD and FW HD and it shows no problem. Have also run TechTool Pro 4.1.1 on both and it says everything is OK.

I've also done a search for my HD by name and search shows nothing.

[Douglashh]

Problem solved by a kind soul who provided the Terminal Command that returned visibility to my HD's and they are now safe and sound in the Finder SideBar.

Doug

[msuper69]

Originally Posted by Douglashh

Problem solved by a kind soul who provided the Terminal Command that returned visibility to my HD's and they are now safe and sound in the Finder SideBar.

Doug

What was the command?

Posting the solution to a problem might help somebody else.

[Douglashh]

The solution:

If you've installed the XcodeTools package, then paste this into the Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/) and see if that makes it visible:

/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v /

Note that 'Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V / makes the directory invisible and /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v / will make it visible again. You have to quit the Finder to see its effects. OPT-click on the Finder's dock icon and select relaunch. If that brings the disk icon back to the Desktop, then use this for the FWHD:

/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v /Volumes/<FireWire disk name>

followed by killing (relaunching) the Finder.

Hope this helps someone, it was a lifesaver for me.

Doug