[m021478]

Does any one have any idea why, an external hard drive I've named "Archived Data", seems to be recognized by a number of different programs/utilities as "Archived Data 1" instead??

I checked Disk Utility, and clicking on the Volume name (which does show up in Disk Utility as "Archived Data") reveals that the 'Mount Point' for this Volume is: /Volumes/Archived Data 1 ?

I tried renaming this drive to something else completely, and sure enough, the Mount Point and the Finder name then become the same thing, but renaming it in the Finder back to "Archived Data" causes the Mount Point name to once again become "Archived Data 1"

This issue is wreaking havoc on synchronization tasks I've configured, breaking alias references I've setup, etc, etc...

Any suggestions as to how I can go about resolving this so that the Mount Point name and the visible Finder name are the same (as they should be, and as they used to b) would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

[Big Mac]

HFS+ or something else? Did you manually mount it?

[zro]

It must have already been mounted. You get the same behavior at times when more than one local user connects to a remote share.

[Hal Itosis]

Look inside your /Volumes with Finder (Go menu -> Go to Folder...).
What we "see" (are shown by Finder) in that folder should only be aliases.
If you see anything other than aliases in there, then probably some disk
wasn't dismounted properly, or maybe some backup app went haywire.

Anything not an alias inside /Volumes should probably be deleted.
[note: unlike Finder, Terminal shows non-boot mounts as folders.]

[m021478]

Originally Posted by Hal Itosis 

Look inside your /Volumes with Finder (Go menu -> Go to Folder...).
What we "see" (are shown by Finder) in that folder should only be aliases.
If you see anything other than aliases in there, then probably some disk
wasn't dismounted properly, or maybe some backup app went haywire.

Anything not an alias inside /Volumes should probably be deleted.
[note: unlike Finder, Terminal shows non-boot mounts as folders.]

Thanks so much...that was precisely the problem! I have no idea how a folder (not an alias) named 'Archived Data' managed to find its way into this /Volumes, but nonetheless, it was there...

I appreciate your help...I definitely wouldn't have figured that one out on my own! Thanks again!

[GENERAL_SMILEY]

This is really annoying I have to go in and edit the target mount path in several applications to deal with this renaming thing. No doubt it is the Applications fault etc... Does anybody have a way round this?