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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1864032" data-attributes="member: 396914">It looks like you are booted from the &quot;2&quot; set of Volumes. And there doesn't appear to be anything there, from your report when you click on the Home Folder in Finder. Try this. shut down your computer as you normally do. Then start it again, but hold down the Option key until you get a screen showing options for booting. Select the &quot;Macintosh HD&quot; (or whatever shows it has 10.15.7 on it) and let it boot. Then look again at Disk Utility to see if the Finder and Home icons are now on the two drives without the &quot;2&quot; in the name. Look in the Home directory in Finder to verify that your files are all there. If all of that is good, go back to Disk Utility and remove the two Volumes with &quot;2&quot; in the name. You remove a Volume by clicking once on the name in the left column, then clicking on the &quot;-&quot; button in the top of the window. It will ask for verification you want to do that and then delete the Volume. At that point, you should show just the two non-2 Volumes with icons for&nbsp; Finder and Home. Then go into System Preferences, Startup Disk and verify or select the Macintosh HD as startup default, (That should happen automatically so you probably won't need to do much at this step at all.) Close all windows, then shutdown and reboot normally and it should just boot into the drive also normally. If it reports any errors on reboot, reboot again with the Option key and point to the &quot;Macintosh HD&quot; drive and let it boot. Repeat the settings in System Preferences and reboot again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1864032, member: 396914"] It looks like you are booted from the "2" set of Volumes. And there doesn't appear to be anything there, from your report when you click on the Home Folder in Finder. Try this. shut down your computer as you normally do. Then start it again, but hold down the Option key until you get a screen showing options for booting. Select the "Macintosh HD" (or whatever shows it has 10.15.7 on it) and let it boot. Then look again at Disk Utility to see if the Finder and Home icons are now on the two drives without the "2" in the name. Look in the Home directory in Finder to verify that your files are all there. If all of that is good, go back to Disk Utility and remove the two Volumes with "2" in the name. You remove a Volume by clicking once on the name in the left column, then clicking on the "-" button in the top of the window. It will ask for verification you want to do that and then delete the Volume. At that point, you should show just the two non-2 Volumes with icons for Finder and Home. Then go into System Preferences, Startup Disk and verify or select the Macintosh HD as startup default, (That should happen automatically so you probably won't need to do much at this step at all.) Close all windows, then shutdown and reboot normally and it should just boot into the drive also normally. If it reports any errors on reboot, reboot again with the Option key and point to the "Macintosh HD" drive and let it boot. Repeat the settings in System Preferences and reboot again. [/QUOTE]

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