Thanks Ronni. Some food for thought there. Normally, after setting up a
connection between the two it is done from the MacAir and on completion of
whatever was being done I disconnect at the MacAir end. Later in the evening
perform some tasks on the iMac and then shut it down and I go to bed. I do
nothing specific to the earlier connection with the MacAir. I will work
through your suggestions later today or tomorrow. Many thanks as always for
this informed stream of knowledge!
Severin
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Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
mail to: [email protected]
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> On 13 Jun 2017, at 14:03, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 13 Jun 2017, at 11:33 am, Severin Crisp <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I regularly “talk” between my MacBook air downstairs and my iMac upstairs
>> both running the latest Sierra.
>> When I connect from the MacAir to the iMac, via Go to Server etc a list of
>> the iMac bits comes up correctly including connected external firewire HDs.
>> Among these is a 1.5T drive which runs a daily clone of my complete 1.5T
>> fusion drive, not surprisingly it is called “iMac Clone A”.
>
>> Recently an extra disk has appeared on the Mac Air listing titled “iMac
>> Clone A 1”. It does not appear in Disk Utility on the iMac nor does it go
>> away with shutdowns and restarts of both Macs. I suspect there is a
>> preference or the like that should be deleted - I assume it may need to be
>> done on the iMac as well, not just the MacAir.
>> Thanks
>> Severin Crisp
>
> Hi Severin,
>
> Do you always eject the iMac correctly after each ‘Connect to Server’ session?
>
> An explanation why this can happen:
>
> When you mount a local hard drive in OS X it will appear in the Computer Name
> section of the Finder, but may also be found on the Desktop or in the Finder
> sidebar (unless you have disabled those options). Sometimes, however, when
> you attach a local hard drive, you will see that the name of the drive has a
> "-1" or another number appended to it.
> For instance, if you have a USB flash drive labeled "USB Drive," it may
> appear as "USB Drive- 1" on your system.
>
> In OS X, drives are accessed through the Finder's various locations, but on
> the filesystem they are given a mount point.
> The drive is first recognized and assigned a unique device ID (such as
> "disk1"--you can see these and other hardware device files by opening the
> Terminal and entering the command "ls /dev") and then is handled by the disk
> arbitration daemon, which identifies it and an available filesystem on it,
> and proceeds with mounting it if the system can recognize it.
>
> The mount point for local drives is in the /Volumes folder, which is a hidden
> directory on the main boot drive. In this directory a folder is created and
> given the drive's name, and is used as the access point for all files on that
> local filesystem.
>
> If by chance you mount two drives of the same name, because the system can't
> create two mount points with the same
> name it appends sequential numbers to new mount points as they are created,
> and therefore you will see the numbered drive names in the Finder.
>
> While the numbered names for disks should only happen if there are multiple
> drives attached with the same name, it can happen for other reasons as well.
>
> Improper unmount
>
> When you eject a drive, the system should remove the mount point for the
> drive; however, sometimes this doesn't happen. Crashes or other improper
> ejecting of drives can sometimes cause the system to leave the drive's mount
> point in the hidden /Volumes directory, and then when you attach the drive
> again the system recognizes an existing mount point of the same name and will
> append a number to the new mount point.
>
> To clear this problem, unmount all drives and go to the hidden /Volumes
> directory by entering the text "/Volumes" in the Finder's Go to Folder option
> (available in the Go menu). This should open the mount points directory, and
> if you see any folders, aliases, or other files in the directory that have
> the same name as your external drive, then remove them.
>
> Use of multiple drives of the same name without rebooting
>
> If you have multiple hard drives of the same name then the system will append
> a number to the end of each if they are mounted at the same time. If you then
> unmount the main drive, all other drives will keep their new numbered names,
> and will continue to do so regardless of whether they are ejected and
> remounted, until the system is rebooted. This is because the system
> associates the mount point name with the drive device (for example, "disk1"),
> which is then kept associated with a particular device for the remainder of
> the boot session.
>
> To fix this problem, just reboot the computer and the drive's name should
> revert back to having no number.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>
> macOS Sierra 10.12.5
>
>
>> ____________________________________________________
>>
>> Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>> ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>> mail to: [email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> ____________________________________________________
>>
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