My MacBook Air, Mountain Lion, is not recognizing a new flash drive with data I need. It doesn't show up in Devices so I can't use Device Troubleshooter. Normally it does recognize flash drives and the USB port usually works. I'm at a conference and everyone else can use these drives. Does anyone have a suggestion?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
Finder > Preferences > General
Make sure External disks is selected.
Hopefully it's formatted for Mac OS X.
I don't seem to have an external disk section, just one for devices. I did a search for the term "external disk" in both Finder and the general search area and got nothing. (I am a new user of Macs and may be looking at the wrong place.)
Maybe it isn't formatted for Mac but they are just pdf files. Those are normally readable on both Mac and PC.
Cookie356 wrote:
Maybe it isn't formatted for Mac but they are just pdf files. Those are normally readable on both Mac and PC.
Even though the files are readable on both Mac and PC, if the drive isn't formatted in a format that Mac OS X can use then the computer itself isn't going to be able to read the drive itself to be able to access the files. Are the other people that are able to access it using PC's or Mac's? You could take the files and put them on a PC and e-mail them to yourself, otherwise you can copy them to a PC, and then format the drive in a format for Mac and then use the PC to put the files back on the drive so you can access them on the Mac.
Thanks so much. That must have been the problem. It worked fine on a PC when I got the flash drive home, and I can easily move the documents to my MAC using the network or Airdrop. I guess all the others were using PC's.
Flash Drive Not Recognized
