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Repairing Media Storage Mount Points

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    If your Mac experienced a hard reboot (e.g. because of a power outage), when it restarts the operating system may mount the media storage incorrectly (for example, /Volumes/Storage1 instead of /Volumes/Storage). If so, Smoke will be unable to access the media storage.

    To delete an incorrect mount point:

    1. On your Mac go to System Preferences > Sharing, and disable all the file services.
    2. In Finder use COMMAND+Shift+G to navigate to /Volumes.
    3. In /Volumes, find the incorrect mount point folder. It should have the name of the original mount point (for example, Storage), but its icon depicts a folder instead of a disk drive.
    4. Delete the folder.
    5. Restart the Mac. Restore System Preferences > Sharing settings.
    6. If the media storage is still not available after restart, use the Mac application Disk Utility to repair the media storage disk. See the Mac documentation for details.