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Macintosh HD icon gone from desktop!!
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<blockquote data-quote="vandal31593" data-source="post: 295872" data-attributes="member: 18699"><p>YESSS!!! I GOT IT!! </p><p></p><p>Ok, here are the edited(and much easier) instructions which I put together from <a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=294158&tstart=0" target="_blank">THIS</a> thread:</p><p></p><p>1. With Terminal you type this command and hit enter:</p><p></p><p>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true;killall Finder</p><p></p><p>2. Go to Developer Tools(Search Developer in Spotlight if you can't find it) and look in the Tools folder for these two files:</p><p></p><p>SetFile</p><p></p><p>3. Drag and drop SetFile to the terminal window and type this after it then press enter:</p><p>-a v /</p><p></p><p>It should look like this: /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v /</p><p></p><p>Then type:</p><p></p><p>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean false;killall Finder</p><p></p><p>If your HD doesn't show up, restart finder(option-click the Finder in the dock) and your HD should be there.</p><p></p><p>Good Luck and thanks to everybody who replied back. I really appreciate the help that this community has given me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vandal31593, post: 295872, member: 18699"] YESSS!!! I GOT IT!! Ok, here are the edited(and much easier) instructions which I put together from [URL="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=294158&tstart=0"]THIS[/URL] thread: 1. With Terminal you type this command and hit enter: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true;killall Finder 2. Go to Developer Tools(Search Developer in Spotlight if you can't find it) and look in the Tools folder for these two files: SetFile 3. Drag and drop SetFile to the terminal window and type this after it then press enter: -a v / It should look like this: /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v / Then type: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean false;killall Finder If your HD doesn't show up, restart finder(option-click the Finder in the dock) and your HD should be there. Good Luck and thanks to everybody who replied back. I really appreciate the help that this community has given me. [/QUOTE]
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