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If there’s a specific drive you’d like an icon for, searching for the model with followed by “icns download” or “png” will sometimes give you want you want, assuming someone else took the time to make you an icon. icns files for basically all of their icons.īeyond this, I suggest doing some Googling.

IconArchive is another site worth checking out, offering.

I used this one for my second drive in the first screenshot of this article.

DeviantArt has a bunch of hard drive icons, but you’ll have to do some digging.

It’s perfect if you’ve added your own solid state drive to an older Mac, and want to show that fact off a little.

This forum post has a collection of icons for various solid state drives, including the Intel icon I used in the images above.

There could be several reasons your external hard drive or SSD fails to mount on macOS Big Sur. At times, your external drive doesn’t mount and won’t be visible in these places.

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Macs use HFS+ or APFS format, whereas Windows computers employ NTFS.

Mac network drive wont stay mounted mac#

If you can’t see a volume list, your Mac can’t access the drive at all and you won’t be able to mount it 6.

As I stated in the original post, this appears to be a longstanding problem that needs to be corrected in macOS, as many Mac users, particularly those in work environments, need to connect to servers, NAS, etc.

If the drive has been mounted, there will be an option to unmount the device. Yet, this very same feature causes network drives to dismount once the Mac goes to sleep. Doing so certainly makes it easier to keep track of which drive is which. When you connect an external storage drive to your Mac running on macOS Big Sur, the drive mounts and shows up in Desktop, Finder, and Disk Utility. Click on the volume for a menu to appear. Both Lacie and Akitio offer icon packs, for example. Drag & drop a mounted network drive into the login items list. Select your user name from the list and then click the Login Items tab.

Some external hard drive manufacturers may offer icons to match the drives they sell. Open System Preferences and click on Users & Groups.

Here’s a quick roundup of icons I’ve found: If you need to mount your windows share permanently then there is an excellent HowTo by dmizer UbuntuForums Staff (scroll to the permanent mount section)- I wont reproduce the advice here because its got some excellent debugging hints and tips and other workarounds that you may encounter. You might also find icons in PNG format you can convert to ICNS using an online converter like iConvert Icons. Look for icons that are square, ideally 512 by 512 pixels (or higher), and in Apple’s. First, you’ll want to find a few custom icons to try out.