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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1833133" data-attributes="member: 38864">I had an issue here with a pair of &quot;Data&quot; volumes showing up, but it was one of my own creation. When I reinstalled Catalina from scratch, I re-created my user from scratch also. I prefer to have my username and home folder with my first name only and first letter capitalized. I have to make a point of making that adjustment when creating the user, and in the past that has never been an issue. But this time, Catalina refused to let me make the first letter of my home folder capitalized. Sooo... after I was set up, I went into the Users &amp; Groups preference pane, unlocked it, right-clicked on my user account, and made the changes there under Advanced Options. Then I rebooted.Everything seemed fine, except when I browsed my folders on logging back in, I saw 3 things. First was my home folder was still showing in lower case in Finder. Secondly, the home folder had a normal folder icon, not the special &quot;Home&quot; folder icon. I fixed this by simply renaming the folder and voila!&nbsp; Fixed.&nbsp; The third thing is where things get weird and relevant here.&nbsp; I also now had two &quot;Mac HD - Data&quot; mount points. Both had the same capacity (each the size of the SSD capacity, which made no sense!), but one was empty.So what I had to do was dismount the empty one from Disk Utility (or maybe I did it from Finder?), then right-click on the dismounted one and and selected &quot;Delete APFS Volume&quot;. Problem solved. Below is a screen cap of how to view this in Disk Utility, though I don't currently have the duplicated volume. The top arrow shows what you need to click to get the view of the &quot;container&quot; contents.EDIT: just to emphasize... the screen shot below shows how this should normally look. Obviously don't try to delete the single &quot;Data&quot; volume.[ATTACH=full]30473[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1833133, member: 38864"] I had an issue here with a pair of "Data" volumes showing up, but it was one of my own creation. When I reinstalled Catalina from scratch, I re-created my user from scratch also. I prefer to have my username and home folder with my first name only and first letter capitalized. I have to make a point of making that adjustment when creating the user, and in the past that has never been an issue. But this time, Catalina refused to let me make the first letter of my home folder capitalized. Sooo... after I was set up, I went into the [I]Users & Groups[/I] preference pane, unlocked it, right-clicked on my user account, and made the changes there under Advanced Options. Then I rebooted. Everything seemed fine, except when I browsed my folders on logging back in, I saw 3 things. First was my home folder was still showing in lower case in Finder. Secondly, the home folder had a normal folder icon, not the special "Home" folder icon. I fixed this by simply renaming the folder and voila! Fixed. The third thing is where things get weird and relevant here. I also now had two "Mac HD - Data" mount points. Both had the same capacity (each the size of the SSD capacity, which made no sense!), but one was empty. So what I had to do was dismount the empty one from Disk Utility (or maybe I did it from Finder?), then right-click on the dismounted one and and selected "Delete APFS Volume". Problem solved. Below is a screen cap of how to view this in Disk Utility, though I don't currently have the duplicated volume. The top arrow shows what you need to click to get the view of the "container" contents. EDIT: just to emphasize... the screen shot below shows how this should normally look. Obviously don't try to delete the single "Data" volume. [ATTACH=FULL]30473[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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