Deleting icon from desktop

[Shona]

Hi

I am a composer finally using my Mac Book Pro 2013 for this purpose - I was allergic to using a DAW which is a Digital Audio Workstation - otherwise known as the software we have to use in order to compose these days. It's all such a huge learning curve as Ive just bought a large library of orchestral instruments that I'm really looking forward to using, and I get around a computer really well considering - however I have a very stupid question, and I will feel stupid once you confirm with me I have done the right or wrong thing.

I was downloading a complex library, and I kept being unable to find apps, they seemed to be hiding out after being downloaded, so I copied the icon - I think you call it - of the hard drive onto the Desktop, to keep it within easy reach until I had downloaded and installed an expensive library. I thought I'd better get rid of the HD icon or app ... so I went to put it in the trash, and then thought better of it. I realise it is not something that you should do under normal circumstances in case you go into the HD by mistake and delete something awful - breaking your computer! So before I headed to the trash bin, could you please tell me the best way to deal with something so big that should not inhabit the desktop???

Many thanks in advance

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello and welcome.

I am slightly confused about your question.

-Which version of OS X?
-Which DAW and what version?
-Can you explain "so I copied the icon - I think you call it - of the hard drive onto the Desktop" a bit further? Do you mean the downloaded app icon, or the gray HD icon.
-Does the icon in the Trash have a little arrow in the bottom left corner...i.e. an alias?
-Is the Mac still functioning normally?

C

 

[Shona]

I found the answer to my conundrum. I could see my hard drive on my desktop. As I had been doing a lot with the mac that day, I couldn't remember how the he
And drive got on my desktop, and I thought I must've taken a copy of the icon to make it more accessible for the time being, because I needed access to the hard drive for most of that morning,

However, I found out what I had done, which was merely ticked a box in preferences to show my hard drive on the desktop, which I then unchecked. Problem solved. Thank you for taking the time to respond, I am sorry you didn't understand my question