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Great to hear!

It may not be a good idea to have an external drive as a login item. As long as it is connected and powered up that should do the job.

It has to be mounted manually as it's an SMB network drive connected directly to the Ethernet port (which in itself probably isn't ideal). But you're right, I've ...

Did the "phantom" drive's name start with a "." Files whose names begin with a "." are invisible in the Finder. If you use an app like showHiddenFiles you might be amazed at what you find.

No, there was no ".", it was exactly the same name as the drive, except it had a folder icon rather than a ...

Funny, same thing just happened to me. Managed to track it to a "phantom" volume that somehow was created on my HD with the same name as the external drive. It was invisible in the Finder but its contents turned up in a search.

So search for the recently downloaded items on your Mac and check the ...