A thumb drive question, please . . .

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A thumb drive question, please . . .

After years of no problems, my 10.15.5 Mac has seemingly given up on small Sandisk drives -- they no longer work and don't appear in the Finder. In fact, that whole lower bit of the Finder's list at the left of the Desktop about attachments is no longer shown! Just blank.

Further strangeness: When a drive is inserted, it does appear in the Disk Utility -- and when it's taken out there's a notice about how it wasn't removed correctly.

Do hope someone recognises the problem,

Fortes

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 8, 2020 9:31 PM

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Barney-15E

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Aug 8, 2020 9:43 PM in response to fortes

In the SideBar, where you call it "attachments," hover the cursor over the right side of the header and click the Show button.

You can also see disks in a Finder window. Use the Go To Computer (cmd-shift-c) to show the mounted drives.

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fortes Author

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Aug 8, 2020 10:01 PM in response to snokes_61

Thanks snokes, seems I somehow did an odd thing, see below . . .

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Aug 8, 2020 9:45 PM in response to fortes

Thats definitely strange, does the USB drive say that it's mounted in Disk Utility? If not there should be a "mount" button.

If that doesn't work, does Disk Utility tell you what format the Sandisk drive has?

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fortes Author

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Aug 8, 2020 9:58 PM in response to Barney-15E

Many thanks, Barney -- my "hovering" done as you said (tho' half way down the left column) brought to light "Locations" that had somehow got hidden.

So now I'm in business again!

All best . . . Fortes

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fortes Author

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Aug 9, 2020 12:03 AM in response to fortes

Fortes here again with a p.s. to the above problem that Barney-15E above solved, God bless him!!

Thing is, what was going on on my Mac 10.15.5 was a big problem for me, totally preventing all use of

SanDisk thumb-drives.

I'd like to suggest to Apple that one's being able to hide parts of the info in the Finder's left-hand column

DOES NO GOOD and indeed is a terrible problem just waiting to be sprung. It took 30 years to get me.

Please consider removing this thing.

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