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Removable media not always showing up on desktop
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for the past couple of weeks I have had the problem of removable media showing up on the desktop. The only solution is a restart or a force finder quit.
Now I assume there is some preference file that has gone bonkers as a diskwarrior and permissions check hasn't solved anything.
Any ideas?
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Out of curiosity, do they show up in the sidebar?
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
Out of curiosity, do they show up in the sidebar?
Nope, nothing.
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this happens often to me with my firewire drives; they don't mount, and when i check firewire in system profiler...beachball.
i tried everything (diskwarrior) etc etc.
finally got some new fw cables, rerouted everything...and so far, so good.
check you connections perhaps??
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And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
this happens often to me with my firewire drives; they don't mount, and when i check firewire in system profiler...beachball.
i tried everything (diskwarrior) etc etc.
finally got some new fw cables, rerouted everything...and so far, so good.
check you connections perhaps??
It is my internal CD drive. Plus sometimes disk images stored on the computer don't even show up so it isn't a hardware thing.
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This happens to some of the computers at my work with our file server. It will be connected, and you'll be able to navigate into the server through the Network icon, but the server won't appear in the sidebar or on the desktop. It's the darnedest thing. I hope somebody here knows what causes it, because it's got me stumped so far.
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There was an incompatibility between the Radeon 9800 and the version of Panther that shipped on my G5 that caused the same symptom, but that was corrected in the next revision of Panther. I doubt you guys are running that version of Panther, though.
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What happens if you launch Disk Utility? Do you see the drives and are they listed as mounted? Try using DU to unmount and re-mount the discs. However, I have occasionally had this happen with a few disk images and only quitting and re-launching the Finder will solve the problem. Btw, if you download and use Tinkertool, you can activate the hidden system preference to add a Quit item to the Finder>File menu. That way you can just command-Q to quit the Finder.
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