hard drive icon looks like time machine icon

jrome wrote:

I have Venture 13.4 on a MacStudio. I have an external USB disk that works properly for Time Machine. But one of my external disks (MacHD3 in a Thunderbolt enclosure) also has the Time Machine icon assigned to it.

How do I fix this?

Open the Get info pane (Command i) hightlight the icon in the upper left, and try Commnad Z— if it does not return to a generic icon copy and paste your more preferred png or jpeg image.

the icon is not going to affect your files.

After much labor, I believe I found the solution to this. Do a get info on both the drive with the correct icon and then on the drive with the changed icon. Then drag the correct one from the upper left corner to the upper left corner of the wrong one and it changed it back to the correct hardware icon. I worked on the for hours!!! trying every other suggestion on the internet and other sites. It amazes how Apple will take over your machine and does what it wants to it. I hate it. Time Machine shouldn't be changing the users private icons in my opinion. And it also when using Time Machine, should it lock you in to not being able to backup to exterior drives. That is absolutely ludicrous. Thanks Apple for feeling so pompous as to lock you in a closet on technology.

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