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Data Drive on desktop in Big Sur
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<blockquote data-quote="dlcatftwin" data-source="post: 1874773" data-attributes="member: 183969"><p>Ian and Jake,</p><p>Thank you so much for responding with pertinent information regarding this issue (more of a curiosity than an issue, really). It was good to hear, as when I view volumes in Disk Utility, your info allows me to know which is the actual disc of the two (or three) representative volumes. My apologies for taking so long to get back and resolve the thread - just been busy!</p><p>The Mac is new to me, being a 2017 build of the 2013 Mac Pro (coffee-can) - it came with Big Sur on it, but I still went ahead and put a fresh copy of the OS on the Mac. That is when I noticed the odd expression of replicate volumes (gee, I do wish it had actually doubled my SSD space!). Not soon after, I decided for the time being that I needed to back down to Catalina, as the music software I use has, under its support, not yet caught up. Still, a fresh install of Catalina yielded the same results, except NOW a fresh boot yields<u> three </u>mounted volume icons: Mac Pro HD-Data, Mac Pro-Data, and Update (!) - as quickly as the desktop is mounted, I highlight and eject the last two, with no impact on my session work. Finding a way to tell the OS to squelch the mounting of these two (imho) pointless pseudo-volumes would be very useful indeed!</p><p></p><p>I wonder if the SSD still some how remembers them as partitions from previous OS installs; after all I formatted but never zeroed out the SSD drive (can we still do that with the latest expressions of Disk Util?).</p><p>I liken the "Mac Pro-Data" volume to a practice I normally do with desktops: create an alias of the "Documents" folder (from my Admin account) and place it under the HD icon - seems to me to be something akin to that gesture.</p><p></p><p>Thank you again for chiming in with your sage advice.</p><p>Regards,</p><p>DLC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dlcatftwin, post: 1874773, member: 183969"] Ian and Jake, Thank you so much for responding with pertinent information regarding this issue (more of a curiosity than an issue, really). It was good to hear, as when I view volumes in Disk Utility, your info allows me to know which is the actual disc of the two (or three) representative volumes. My apologies for taking so long to get back and resolve the thread - just been busy! The Mac is new to me, being a 2017 build of the 2013 Mac Pro (coffee-can) - it came with Big Sur on it, but I still went ahead and put a fresh copy of the OS on the Mac. That is when I noticed the odd expression of replicate volumes (gee, I do wish it had actually doubled my SSD space!). Not soon after, I decided for the time being that I needed to back down to Catalina, as the music software I use has, under its support, not yet caught up. Still, a fresh install of Catalina yielded the same results, except NOW a fresh boot yields[U] three [/U]mounted volume icons: Mac Pro HD-Data, Mac Pro-Data, and Update (!) - as quickly as the desktop is mounted, I highlight and eject the last two, with no impact on my session work. Finding a way to tell the OS to squelch the mounting of these two (imho) pointless pseudo-volumes would be very useful indeed! I wonder if the SSD still some how remembers them as partitions from previous OS installs; after all I formatted but never zeroed out the SSD drive (can we still do that with the latest expressions of Disk Util?). I liken the "Mac Pro-Data" volume to a practice I normally do with desktops: create an alias of the "Documents" folder (from my Admin account) and place it under the HD icon - seems to me to be something akin to that gesture. Thank you again for chiming in with your sage advice. Regards, DLC [/QUOTE]
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