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I have a Drobo which is attached to my MacBook Pro via USB. When I boot into OSX Lion (and Snow Leopard before it) I would get a Drobo icon on the desktop. The icon looks like a shiny rendered picture of a Drobo with the funky blue and green lights.

After a little while the icon changes to a generic USB drive icon with a time machine logo on it. Is there any way to make it stay as a drobo icon, despite being a Time Machine backup volume?

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There is an easy fix, but it's not so elegant. You can change the default icon used for time machine disks to the icon used for your drobo disk. This can be done by swapping out the system's time machine volume icon located in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemIcons.bundle/Contents/Resources

Note: this will only be an elegant solution if the Drobo is the only time machine disk you use for that machine. Be sure to back up the original Time Machine icon just incase you want it back in the future.

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Ugh. Shame it's not more configurable. Thanks for the answer! – Alan Pope Aug 9 '11 at 9:33
i think if u just delete the icon from the drobo by coping it then pressing <kbd> delete </kbd> and then paste it back in, it should be fine also – XAleXOwnZX Aug 10 '11 at 0:08

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