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February 18, 2017
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Unknown drive has appeared in 'Import' screen?

  • February 18, 2017
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Hello,

I have noticed when importing photographs that a new 'drive' has appeared in the Source list in addition to the usual 'Macintosh HD'. If I click on 'Import', under 'Source' it lists 'Macintosh HD', which appears to work fine, but it also had a new drive named with a random string of letters and numerals (see screen grab below). This 'drive' does not show any folders when I maximise it, although it appears to have the same capacity as my 120GB 'Macintosh HD' drive. Is there a way to delete this redundant drive?

I think these problems started occurring after recently running the disk cleanup utility on my MacBook Pro (running macOS Sierra version 10.12.3), so I am not sure if this has altered my setup somehow. I've tried reinstalling Lightroom but to no avail.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Paul

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Correct answer Bob Somrak

No it doesn't. It doesn't appear anywhere else but in the Lightroom 'Import' screen.


I run the "First Aid" on my Mac every so often and just did it and I don't have phantom drive.  This is OS X 10.11.6 so maybe it is a Sierra problem.

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Just Shoot Me
Legend
February 18, 2017

What Disk Cleanup utility did you run?

Participant
February 18, 2017

It was just the built-in 'Disk Utility' on the Mac. I selected 'First Aid' to check for errors. It may just be coincidence but I can't remember this drive being there before that.

Bob Somrak
Legend
February 18, 2017

Try a complete shutdown/restart of the computer.

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
Participant
February 18, 2017

Hi Bob,

I have just tried that, though unfortunately the drive is still showing. Strangely though, it now has a completely different series of letters/numbers as it's name...

Paul

Bob Somrak
Legend
February 18, 2017

Does this "phantom" drive show up in FINDER?

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB