Mac OS X
Q: External drives stop showing up in Finder
I've been having a problem lately where external drives, like thumb drives for example, will not show up in the Finder, even though they are mounted. If I pull them out then I get a warning that the drive was disconnected improperly. While they are plugged in, they show up in Disk Utility. Also, I'm running Parallels and the disk shows up in Parallels windows -- NOT as being mounted to the windows virtual machine but as being mounted on the Mac side.
Anyone know what causes this? I'm pretty sure the problem goes away when I restart the machine, but I'd like to know why it is happening.
Thanks
Bob
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on Sep 23, 2016 3:08 PM