Generic icons for Windows drives on Mac desktop

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by macsrwe, Jul 1, 2015.

  1. macsrwe

    macsrwe Junior Member

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    Nothing earth-shaking, just a minor annoyance... When Parallels is running, it has always put a handy alias icon for the Windows drive on my Mac desktop. It's always been a standard blue "server" icon. A couple days ago, after a neighborhood power failure, the icon suddenly became a generic dog-eared document icon, and nothing I have tried will turn it back. I tried pasting the correct icon in the Get Info window (I got beeped at). I tried dragging the alias to the trash, then rebooting Windows -- a new generic icon was created.

    I have defined an external backup drive to be "disk 2" -- it isn't always present at boot, but it is when I want to run a backup. When it's present, it still shows up on the desktop with the proper blue icon, right there next to the generic icon for drive C:.

    Does anybody know how to get the correct icon back?

    I'm running the latest available Parallels Desktop, on the latest available Mountain Lion update.
     
  2. Ram@Parallels

    Ram@Parallels Parallels Support

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    Hi Macsrwe, could you please provide us a screenshot of the icons, so that we can check and let you know.
     
  3. macsrwe

    macsrwe Junior Member

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    It appears that the problem fixed itself sometime in the past two days. I suspect it was some kind of OS X Finder or cache gum-up. I'll re-open this if it occurs again (though I've been using Parallels for five years and this is the first time I ever saw it).
     
  4. Dhruba@Parallels

    Dhruba@Parallels

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    Glad to here that the issue is resolved @macsrwe , feel free to reach out anytime, we are happy to help.
     

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