External USB drives, SD cards and even DVD media is not mounting to desktop when connected.
This is a new problem for me and have not had this issue previously. I have successfully connected the same devices in the past.
They all show up in the disc utility as connected. I am unable to mount them from disc utility (this button is disabled) and they are not showing up in Finder either.
Please help!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Go to the Finder menu and click "Preferences…"
The "General" tab of the window that pops up is your best friend :-)
The "Sidebar" tab is also worth checking out.
Hope that helps!
Paul,
Do you mean you're not seeing them on your desktop? If that is the case, click on finder in the menubar go to preferences and check show these items on the desktop check off the four items you see there. Hope this helps.
Joseph
Hi,
Thanks. Have looked at these options and all are checked. Items still not displaying and do not seem accessible.
Paul
In that case, I would do this:
killall Finder
Good luck!
Sorry. Still no joy.
Considering that I could see them previously, is there any update that would have made this occur? Is there a way to restore anything (similar to a pc restore point?)
cheers
Paul
Paul,
The short answer: yes there is, but it will - alas - take some hours of your time. Here are the steps:
While doing these steps, make sure there's enough coffee ;-)
BUT, before doing this, I would first try this:
Open Terminal, type
chflags nohidden ~/Desktop/*HTH,
Jasper.
Thanks Jasper,
I have tried the command in Terminal and get the message : No such file or directory
Any suggestions before reinstalling the OS ?
regards
Paul
paul_vz74 wrote:
Any suggestions before reinstalling the OS ?
regards
Paul
Apple Portables: Troubleshooting the slot load optical disc drive
Hi Paul,
Sorry for the late answer. I live in Europe, so that's why I was asleep ;-)
Basically the command tells your computer to unhide everything on your Desktop, so if you don't have a Desktop, something is definitely wrong.
My guess is that there's something wrong with your account on that computer. You can check that by creating a new account in System Preferences (click on Accounts, click the lock in the bottom-left corner and then click the "+" button just above).
Then try mounting "some" media and see if it appears on the new user's Desktop. If not, I would highly recommend to reinstall Mac OS X.
HTH,
Jasper.
Hi Jasper,
No problem, thanks for the reply.
I have just got off the phone with the Apple support centre and after 40 min of trying various things (a few that were mentioned in this discussion) they got me to 'repair disk permissions' through the disk utility. This appears to have fixed the issue and all drives are now mounting. They tried this as a last resort and had that not worked, they were going to suggest a reinstall of the OS.
Will keep an eye on things and hopefully all is ok.
Thanks for your assistance.
cheers
Paul
Paul,
Glad to hear that your problem is solved.
"Repair disk permissions" always had that strange surrounding controversy:
http://www.macjournals.com/news/2008/01/09
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/repair_permissions_voodoo
Cheers,
Jasper.
drives are not mounting to desktop on macbook pro.
