Macintosh HD snapshot shown as external drive after Monterey upgrade

[htmanning]

I upgraded a 2019 MBA from Catalina to Monterey. When the upgrade was finished, the Macintosh HD icon on the desktop was orange as if it was an external drive. There is no external drive. As you can see from the screenshot, the snapshot is shown as an external drive in Disk Utility. What would cause this? I can replace the icon on the drive, but I'm stumped as to what has cause this and if I should simply erase everything and start over.

When booting into recovery and using Disk Utility there, the snapshot is not mounted so it doesn't show up.

 

[Brian33]

My structure looks analogous to yours (although I have Disk Utility's View-->Show All Devices turned on), which leads me to conclude that erasing and re-installing aren't worth it. (Mine was a complete wipe & clean install of Monterey.) I did not experience the orange icon, though. That is odd. No idea why that would happen, but if it were me I'd just fix the volume's icon.

 

[gilby101]

I can't say why you have that, but it is easy to fix.

In Finder's Get Info you can change the disk icon (at the top of Get Info's window) using copy and paste from another device. The standard icon should be present on some of the volumes in Macintosh HD/System/Volumes. So, do Get Info on one of these, click on the icon at top left, Command-C (or however you like to do a copy). Now go to Macintosh HD and show its Get Info, click on the icon at top and Command-V (or however you like to do paste). You will need to enter your administrator password.