Big Sur and Seagate Drives

[CGC1331]

I recently upgraded from Catalina to Big Sur. Waited a long time to do that hopefully to avoid any bugs. However, after doing so, all my icons/thumbnails for my Seagate external drives disappeared and reverted to the generic orange drive icons.

I looked for a Big Sur compatible download on the Seagate site that addressed this issue but only found the toolkit and NTFS which I downloaded and installed but no improvement. Anyone know of a way to get the Seagate icons back.

Was not an issue with Catalina but I seem to remember they did require a piece of software that added the correct drive icons.

 

[BigBlur]

You don’t need any additional software. I used the method below, which works for external drives too. It talks about using pictures, but icon files should work as well. I know Seagate usually includes an icon of the drive somewhere on the disk, so you could use that if you still have it. That is what I used. Otherwise, you could find an image you like on the web.

Change icons for files or folders on Mac

In the Finder on your Mac, change the icon for any file or folder using your own pictures, icons from the web, or icons from another file or folder.

support.apple.com

 

[CGC1331]

Thanks!