Hi Tony, If it’s just an alias, you can just delete it by dragging it to the Trash. If it’s duplicated it, it will generally appear as a folder, and can just be deleted.
Hard to say “what” is duplicating it without seeing the system and knowing all things open. But most things generally won’t duplicate it without some form of “action”. Only thing could be is if a link / shortcut / alias is actually sitting on “another drive”, so when you click or open a file - it’s referring the other location and therefore mounting the second drive / icon. But that’s generally when something is stored on a different location that that happens. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry p : 0414 795 960 e : <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> w : <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. *** Avoid Scams! - Get my latest eBook to help protect yourself, your finances and what things to look out for. Grab your copy today from - https://ebooksonline.com.au/ *** > On 25 Mar 2025, at 12:58 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis via WAMUG > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Daniel > > Ok, I have been doing my photo’s as normal and I will duplicate photo’s > so that I can lower the size of the photo to send it, I was playing > with my photo’s 2 days ago and duplicated them, I now have another Hard > Drive icon on my desktop. > > 1. How do I remove the icon? > > 2. What do I have open that would duplicate when I duplicate a photo? > > I have never encountered this before. > > Thanks Daniel, and Stephen, I’ll leave things alone for now but will > come back to it shortly and see if I have anything open. > > Thank you both for replying > > Kind Regards > > Tony Francis > > Boddington > > W.A. > > On 22 Mar 2025, at 18:06, Daniel Kerr via WAMUG > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tony, > It could possibly that you accidentally clicked “Duplicate” on the > Macintosh HD - so you ended up with it making a copy of your hard > drive. > But without really “seeing” it, it’s a bit hard to advise completely. > But one thing you could try is look inside the “folder” in the bin. > (And also do a “Get Info” on it with Command - I (letter i) to check if > it’s a folder or what it lists as “kind”. > Then also go through the folder in the Trash. Have a look at what > folders are in it. Do they match things in your main hard drive? > If they do,..and it looks like it’s the “same - same” for both the > folder and your main hard drive - then it would be fine to let it > complete to erase what’s in the bin. > Before doing anything, it would be worth ensuring you have an up to > date back up of everything though - just to be on the safe side. > But from the sound of it, and without seeing it, it does sound like > it’s possibly a duplicate of it - and just a folder. Which would be why > it “couldn’t be ejected”. > Kind regards > Daniel > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > p : 0414 795 960 > e : <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > w : <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > **For everything Apple** > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion > and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of > MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any > form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if > any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or > copied, that permission by the author be requested. > *** Avoid Scams! - Get my latest eBook to help protect yourself, your > finances and what things to look out for. Grab your copy today from - > https://ebooksonline.com.au/ *** > > On 22 Mar 2025, at 12:49 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis via WAMUG > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys > Just hoping that there are still some members of the group > available. > Whilst checking through my iMac 27 inch Computer, I clicked on the > Computers Hard Drive icon and ended up with a copy of the hard drive > on my desktop. I tried to eject the icon, no luck, I tried to put it > in the Trash, no luck, it just sat happily on my desktop. Then it > disappeared, goodie! I noticed that my computer seemed a little slow > so I went about cleaning up my desktop ( thanks Ronnie Brown, some > things never change) and noticed that there was junk in my BIN, so I > hit delete rubbish, thinking no more about it I left the computer > alone and found something else to do. > I have just come back to my computer, woken it up and a message box > came up informing me that 65,000 items had been deleted, I stopped > the deletion and checked my bin and the “Hard Drive” Icon that had > been sitting on my desktop had gone into my bin and the information > in it was being deleted. > Now my question is: Is this clearing my actual HARD DRIVE or only > the information from the copy that I finally put in the bin? Should > I be worried? > Thank you > Kind Regrds > Tony Francis > BODDINGTON > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <https://lists.wamug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <https://lists.wamug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - <https://lists.wamug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <https://lists.wamug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/wamug>
