That really shouldn't happen though. I have an external HD I shuttle between home and my studio and I haven't had it do that. Like I said, the only time that has happened is when I had TWO drives named the same.

So, I suspect that you might have two drives named the same? I dunno. You didn't list enough stuff to pinpoint what is wrong and why OS X is doing that.


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