Mounted Volumes now showing on desktop or sidebar.

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I did search for "sidebar", "invisible volumes" and "volumes+sidebar" and I found no posts with solutions (several post that appear to be asking the same question with no responses/answers though...)

First, I have checked Finder>Preferences>Show Connected Serves on Desktop, and still my problem persists.


Description:

A Coworker using my computer claims that he accidentally dragged a mounted volume out of the side bar and it made a "poof" sound and is no longer visible either on the desktop, or on the side bar.

The volume in question, is one of 3 hosted via an X-Serve and X-Raid. Of the 3 volumes being hosted, two of them show correctly in both the sidebar and on the desktop.

When I connect to the server via browsing connected servers, or via connecting directly to the IP, the volume does show up as listed. However when I select it and attempt to connect, it does not show on the sidebar or desktop. If I try to connect again to that volume on the server, it is grayed out, as if I was already connected to it.

When I try to save and open files within a program, the volume shows correctly and I can access it, while within the save/open file dialogue.


Currently, my work around is a network shortcut going directly to the file pathname for a directory within the volume that I need to connect too.


Is there a way to get the volume to show correctly on the desktop and sidebar?


Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks.
 
If you go into the Finder's preferences, you can select which icons display on the Desktop. To change the Finder preferences, click on the desktop until you see the name "Finder" at the top left next to the Apple. Then click on the "Finder" menu listing and select Preferences. Once in there, you can select what you want to see on the desktop as well as on the sidebar (if you click the Sidebar pane within Finder preferences).
 
nixgeek said:
If you go into the Finder's preferences, you can select which icons display on the Desktop. To change the Finder preferences, click on the desktop until you see the name "Finder" at the top left next to the Apple. Then click on the "Finder" menu listing and select Preferences. Once in there, you can select what you want to see on the desktop as well as on the sidebar (if you click the Sidebar pane within Finder preferences).
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Ok, I toggled the check box off, then on again (was already selected) and now the mounted volume shows in the side bar.

However, it still won't show on the desktop. (Tried the same trick with the desktop checkbox too, to no avail...)
 
Relaunching Finder would do essentially the same thing - you can relaunch it from the Force Quit window.
 
I posted about this stuff earlier. I still haven't a solution. I am just about to load tiger on a new hard drive and start the file transfer shuffle. Nixgeek's solution didn't work for me.
 
I've had this problem on two machines. And both of the problems started when people dragged the mounted volumes from the side bar.
 
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