On Mar 3, 2020, at 8:30 AM, jimrobertson via Groups.Io <
jimrobertson@...> wrote:
For some reason, under ¡°Favorites,¡± I have two iterations of ¡°Macintosh HD¡±, both read-only, but both exactly the same size:<MacHD screenshot.png>
Both are marked as ¡°Read Only (lower L corner)¡± but I assume that this is because the ¡°Macintosh HD¡± designation applies to both the Read Only system and the ¡°separate¡± volume containing my users, etc.
Regardless of which partition you are looking at, your ID does not have write permission to the root folder. ?Having such permissions could easily create a dangerous situation.
Is there anything wrong with having duplicate icons like this? I
I¡¯m stuck back on High Sierra, so I can¡¯t say, but I haven¡¯t seen anything like that in any articles.
s there some way I should try to delete one of them, and how would I know which one to delete. I¡¯m assuming, actually, that the Mac wouldn¡¯t let me do it, because the portion of Macintosh HD that contains the System IS read only.
Did you try turning off Locations in Finder Preferences and then turning it back on again?
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Bev in TX
