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CD's not showing up on desktop
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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90% of the time I put a disc in the drive it doesn't show up on the desktop. More common when they are discs of just images. Any reason why?
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2005
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mine only dont show up some of the time
you might want to reinstall osx
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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What Mac and version of the OS are you running? When running the OS it shipped with, 10.3.4, my G5 would exhibit the same behavior; it drove me mad until I found others with the same issue. It turned out to be an incompatibility with the Radeon 9800 that was fixed with 10.3.5.
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Last edited by Big Mac; Jul 8, 2005 at 07:02 PM.
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Usually when disc dont show up its becase the OS does not recognized the format, or the drive cannot read the format (eg. a - DVD trying to read a + disc might cause issues).
Can you give us a bit more info on the problem and kinds of discs:
Does this happen with discs of any kind (audio cds, dvds, data)?
Are the discs burned disc or does this happed with original discs too?
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by EliteRides
90% of the time I put a disc in the drive it doesn't show up on the desktop. More common when they are discs of just images. Any reason why?
Maybe a stupid response, but check under Finder Preferences and make sure check mark is beside Show CDs on desktop is checked
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I found an applescript somewhere (forgot where) called "forcemount CD" that is useful when trying to mount windows-burned disks from EZ CD Creator where the session has not been "closed."
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Sometimes volumes don't appear because the Finder is just a POS. If you check in /Volumes (use the go menu -> go to folder), a lot of the time they are mounted all along. Relaunching the POS Finder sometimes rectifies the situation. Possibly using Path Finder would help.
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Senior User
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I have the same problem on two of my macs but not on the third.. All running 10.4.1.
i have to eject and reload 3 or 4 times before it takes it though.
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It's not a volume thing. It doesn't show up at all. I checked and I do have CDs, DVDs, and iPods checked. I'm using Mac OSX 10.3.9. I mostly have put in audio discs and they are the ones that tend not to show up. The one that finally brought me to posting was just a regular, real, not burned audio cd.
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