How come no drives are shown on Lion/Mac OS X 10.7.x's desktops anymore?

Hi!

I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
desktop. I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
change this design?

Thank you in advance.
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Ant <> wrote:
> Hi!

> I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
> noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
> desktop.

Yes it does.

> I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
> change this design?

They didn't. Finder -> Preferences -> General.

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Ant wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
> noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
> desktop. I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
> change this design?
>
> Thank you in advance.

You can go to Finder Preferences. and reset so that hard drives show.
They are dumbing down computers. the new breed of Programmers at apple
are assuming the people using Computers are a bunch of dumbasses and
will screw up their computers if they look inside the hard drive. And
also what shows in the sidebar.

Lewis wrote:
> In message<eIWdnU89g9gWo0PSnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@earthlink .com>
> Ant<> wrote:
>> Hi!
>
>> I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
>> noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
>> desktop.
>
> Yes it does.
>
>> I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
>> change this design?
>
> They didn't. Finder -> Preferences -> General.
>
The difference is up to Snow Leopard the showing of Hard Drives even
though could be turned off or on. What's Different is That Hard drive
display was not preset on.

On 6/17/2012 3:36 PM PT, PhillipJones typed:

>>> I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
>>> noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
>>> desktop.
>>
>> Yes it does.
>>
>>> I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
>>> change this design?
>>
>> They didn't. Finder -> Preferences -> General.
>>
> The difference is up to Snow Leopard the showing of Hard Drives even
> though could be turned off or on. What's Different is That Hard drive
> display was not preset on.

Ah thanks, but why did Apple change the default to hide them? That seems
to mess up usability IMO.
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On 6/17/2012 3:34 PM PT, PhillipJones typed:

>> I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
>> noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
>> desktop. I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
>> change this design?
>
> You can go to Finder Preferences. and reset so that hard drives show.
> They are dumbing down computers. the new breed of Programmers at apple
> are assuming the people using Computers are a bunch of dumbasses and
> will screw up their computers if they look inside the hard drive. And
> also what shows in the sidebar.

[sighs]
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In message <>
Ant <> wrote:
> On 6/17/2012 3:36 PM PT, PhillipJones typed:

>>>> I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
>>>> noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
>>>> desktop.
>>>
>>> Yes it does.
>>>
>>>> I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
>>>> change this design?
>>>
>>> They didn't. Finder -> Preferences -> General.
>>>
>> The difference is up to Snow Leopard the showing of Hard Drives even
>> though could be turned off or on. What's Different is That Hard drive
>> display was not preset on.

> Ah thanks, but why did Apple change the default to hide them? That seems
> to mess up usability IMO.

Not really. Most people either have nothing on their desktop at all, or
have EVERYTHING on their desktops. having the drive there doesn't help
in either case.

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PhillipJones <> wrote:

> Ant wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have been using old Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.2.x for many years, but
> > noticed 10.7.x/Lion do not show connected/mounted drives anymore on
> > desktop. I do see them in Finder, but that's annoying now. Why did Apple
> > change this design?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
>
> You can go to Finder Preferences. and reset so that hard drives show.
> They are dumbing down computers. the new breed of Programmers at apple
> are assuming the people using Computers are a bunch of dumbasses and
> will screw up their computers if they look inside the hard drive. And
> also what shows in the sidebar.

FWIW, in my experience of helping the old fogies with their various
computer problems, this is actually a good thing. The amount of times I
have to fix stuff because they've been fiddling with things they're not
meant to, and haven't got a clue what they do. The more things you can
hide away from them, the better, IMHO.

The great thing is, they have left the options there to turn make things
visble again. Or if not, there are usually some third party solutions
that'll do it easily enough.

Either way, the safest options are being set by default. If you have a
clue, then it's no big deal to reactivate things.

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In article <1kluzkg.1uijm9a1ksfcuwN%>,
(Andy Hewitt) wrote:

> Either way, the safest options are being set by default. If you have a
> clue, then it's no big deal to reactivate things.

I've been doing this a long time, and I'm used to seeing my prefs
persist across upgrades. So when Lion booted the first time and no
drives showed up on the Desktop, I immediately thought that something
had "gone wrong" with the upgrade. An empty Desktop?

My next thought was that they (Apple) had just set those prefs back to
zero. Which was the case. Lion works. The scroll bars are just silly.
It's almost like some practical joke.
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Warren Oates <> wrote:

> In article <1kluzkg.1uijm9a1ksfcuwN%>,
> (Andy Hewitt) wrote:
>
> > Either way, the safest options are being set by default. If you have a
> > clue, then it's no big deal to reactivate things.
>
> I've been doing this a long time, and I'm used to seeing my prefs
> persist across upgrades. So when Lion booted the first time and no
> drives showed up on the Desktop, I immediately thought that something
> had "gone wrong" with the upgrade. An empty Desktop?
>
> My next thought was that they (Apple) had just set those prefs back to
> zero. Which was the case. Lion works. The scroll bars are just silly.
> It's almost like some practical joke.

I'm with you on the scroll bars. And what's happened to the one-click
arrow buttons?

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