Hard drive does not show up in desktop on mac mini
USB flash drive or hard drive does not show on dock or desktop screen
Mac mini, iOS 6
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USB flash drive or hard drive does not show on dock or desktop screen
Mac mini, iOS 6
same thing is happening to me with 2 different flash drives.
and it's not related to the Finder prefs. The drives used to show on my 3 different computers, 10.5.8, 10.6, 10.8.5 and I know the cards are not damaged, because I put them into a PC and Kinkos' printer 2 days ago, and they were able to read them.
I also used disk utility, and they do not show up there either.....
anybody has any idea?
Michel
What OSX version?
Are you plugging it directly into a USB port on the Mac?
What shows under USB in System Report?
Does the USB ports recognize standard HDs?
all the version were listed above for 3 separate computer I tried the chip onto...( 10.5.8, 10.6, 10.8.5)
all 3 computers have USB port which I am using
1- is a flash card that I put into a card reader which plugs into USB port of all 3 computer.
I further put the flash card into my epson printer that also has a Flash card reader..... but the printer window says: "cannot recognize the memory card or stick..."
2- the other memory device is a USB Keychain memory stick. At one point when I plugged it into my 10.6 machine, it popped up on the desktop and was able to copy some files to it. I ejected it, and re-inserted it a 2nd time to test it, and it would NOT show up on desktop again.
I do not have any external USB HD only Fire wire 400-800.
not sure what system report you are refering to!
Some older USB card readers are not compatible with some Macs/OSX version.
For this problem " I ejected it, and re-inserted it a 2nd time to test it, and it would NOT show up on desktop again." I suspect a poor connection of faulty card that works some times.
Hard drive does not show up in desktop on mac mini