Lacie B/up Icon on Desktop

[Mikeo512]

I have an MBP (16-inch, 2019) running with OS 12.0.1.
There’s a Lacie outboard drive that backs up my stuff via TM. This drive usually appears as a green icon on the desktop; in the icon I see the hands of a clock and a circular arrow pointing in an anti-clockwise direction. But sometimes it’s orange in colour and when it’s like this I don’t think it shows the circular arrow and the hands of a clock.
Can someone pse explain this variation?
Thanks in advance -
M

 

[MacInWin]

The blue-green clock/arrow icon says that is a Time Machine drive in good standing. The orange color is a generic for any external drive. What I observe is that when I first connect a drive, it comes up orange, then shifts to the TM icon once the OS recognized that the drive is, in fact, a TM backup.

 

[Mikeo512]

OK Jake and thanks for the explanation. Yes, it is indeed usually green because I rarely shut the Mac down. However, I'll look again when I next shut down and see what happens to the icon.]
M

 

[pm-r]

Can someone pse explain this variation?
Thanks in advance -

Lacie's Support Page shouls hwlp with any confusion:

Note about Time Machine: When you select a drive as the Time Machine backup destination, volume will always display the Time Machine icon and cannot be modified. See Time Machine icon below:

LaCie Drive Icons | LaCie Support US

One example of icon used:



- Patrick
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[Mikeo512]

Thanks Patrick ... the above is what I see right now but without the HFS+.
M

 

[IWT]

@Mikeo512

Just to add something although you've had the best advice already from Jake & Patrick:



You will notice that TM1 and TM2 are Time Machine backups and, as Jake said, they show the anti-clockwise arrow. The one in the middle is my Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) backup, which appears as orange.

That hopefully reassures you re colour coding of External Hard Drives.

Ian

 

[chscag]

Anti-clockwise or counter-clockwise?

LOL, just poking fun at your King's English.

 

[pm-r]

LOL, just poking fun at your King's English.

The opposite direction is called counterclockwise in the US, anticlockwise in the UK, or the less common but pretty cool widdershins!

Clockwise and Counterclockwise

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- Patrick
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[IWT]

Anti-clockwise or counter-clockwise?

LOL, just poking fun at your King's English.

Nice one Charlie.

Then, of course, there's Aunty and ante.

Ian