Showing non-existent network volumes

[nojohnny101]

Hey everyone!

My first post so please be nice! I am running the latest version of Alfred 3 on Mac OS X Sierra.

 

I'm having a bit of an odd issue that am hoping someone on here can help me out with. For some reason when I use the browser feature in Alfred to navigate some networked volumes (SMB, off a NAS if it matters), it shows multiple different versions of the networked drive but only one is valid. The others have a red dash on them (the symbol Mac OS X uses to show you don't have correct permissions) and obviously they are empty.

 

I have attached a screenshot for clarification. Anyone have an idea about how to clear these old ones out? I have already tried clearing the "cache" in the settings. I have not rebuilt the whole spotlight index as that is time and resource intensive. Before I try that, I wanted to see if anyone on here has any better ideas.

 

Thanks. I appreciate the help!

[deanishe]

That's just a list of the folders in your /Volumes directory. To fix it, delete the invalid folders.

[nojohnny101]

Thanks. I should have explained that when navigating to finder, there are no folders named "family" "family-2" "family-3". That is why I'm confused.

[deanishe]

Have you looked in a terminal? /Volumes is one of Finder's "magic" folders, and it lies about the real contents.

[nojohnny101]

Thanks for the help @deanishe

 

After some further digging, I saw that it was listed in the terminal under volumes. I then checked to see if it was listed using "diskutil list" and it wasn't. Which means for sure it wasn't mounted.

 

I found this thread which describes my situation quite well, that it most likely was an old mount point that was never cleared out:

https://superuser.com/questions/249611/how-to-forceably-unmount-stuck-network-share-in-mac-os-x

 

A simple reboot helped!

[deanishe]

2 hours ago, nojohnny101 said:

an old mount point that was never cleared out

 

That's exactly what they are.