USB drive confusion

I have 2 USB drive connected to the hub and both mount. Airport disk utility lists only item, and that is named after the base station, not the hard drive. Should not 2 drives be listed under the same name as is seen on the desktop?
The disk utility in the menu bar also lists just the name of the base station - selecting this to mount manually mounts both drives...
Mark

Does the specification for the AEBS claim to support multiple USB devices?
Yes. The new square 802.11n AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) supports multiple USB printers and/or USB hard drives.

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Matt,
If you want help, please start your own thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1339&start=0
And if your previous thread you aren't getting sufficient help for your iPhone, post a new topic here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1139
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Found a possible solution for me.
While the phone was plugged into my computer and iTunes is CLOSED.
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3. Then I right-clicked again and selected "Start".
4. Then I went to Device Manager and right clicked my iPhone with the yellow alert icon and selected "Uninstall". You will get a warning about uninstalling the device. Click OK.
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Hey all,
I recently helped someone who was suffering from two separate, show-stopping iPod/iTunes problems to get things into such a state that they could actually make use of both. Things seem to be working fine, though one of our solutions seems to me to be a bit less than optimal.
For the sake of providing as much information as possible, the first problem (though likely unrelated) was the infamous vanishing iTunes installation. We solved this by using the ctrl-alt-delete trick on an iTunes 4.9 installation (that is, by ending all of the install processes when the installation-ending error message shows up.) Okay, that's not the best solution, but it seems to be all that we can do for now.
The main concern, however, is with the iPod USB driver, and a problem that began with the formatting of the iPod. I can see that at least a few people have had this problem, but here it is for the sake of it:
The iPod installation software would state that the iPod needed to be formated, and then proceed to sit for a very long time, "waiting for iPod," until it would eventually fail. We solved this using the second technique (uninstalling the iPod USB driver) outlined by Paul Green7 in this thread: William Brame, "Initial formatting of iPod Nano", 02:49pm Sep 22, 2005 CDT
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That is, until the computer was rebooted. After a reboot, the iPod would only be recognized once again as a "USB Mass Storage Device," would not appear in My Computer, and indeed iTunes failed to recognize it as anything other than a 360gb storage device of some unknown sort.
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Now, as I said, this leaves things in a working, if far less than ideal, state. Can anyone think of a more proper fix for this? It seems to me that we've only partially addressed the problem here, and I can't help but think that this may not be the best state to leave things in.
Also, if nothing else, is there any possibility of ill effects resulting from our currently-employed solution? As far as I can tell, the worst thing about it is that it's merely bothersome, but then, I've had difficult understanding these problems in the first place.
That said, if anyone can offer any advice, it would be greatly appreciated!

The key to your problem is more than likely the 360GB storage device. This is a symptom of having either network drives or an external hard drive attached to your computer, and Windows confusing them with the iPod. The solution is to reassign the iPod's drive letter. See this:
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USB drive locks up ibook running 10.3.9

Hi All,
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Any ideas? If I failed to disclose any piece of info that may be useful, please let me know and I'll do my best to provide it.
As an aside: I have not talked to the vendor Rocstor yet. I wanted to post to the Apple discussion boards first.
Regards and Thanks,
Grant
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USB Nugget 3 of n: Unifying the multitude of USB driver Subsystems

So here we are for another little USB Nugget.
A lot of time has passed since the last one and also a lot of work has gone into this post (or the VIs being attached).
During my other Nuggets I have become less than enamoured with the VISA interface to the USB bus. I find some of the terminology rather confusing and the lack of examples doesn't help either. There have also been an increase in questions in the forum regarding HID USB communication and the like.
Having recently (timeframe 2 years ago) goten "into" LVOOP, I thought developing a LVOOP framework for USB communications would be a beneficial thing to do. The ability to have different classes of devices (or device requeasts) inherit from one another coupled with the ability to have "hot-swappable" USB subsystems drivers via object componsition made me want to write such a software. Well I did, and here it is in it's completely unfinished glory. This software has become a bit of a nightmare for me. I see that it could very well have a use for the community but I've invested a lot into it to make it work so I'm a bit hesitant just giving it away for free (I earned my money with LV software consultancy for a few years). But it being Christmas and all I'm showing me good will to all men (and women) by just releasing it and hoping for the best.
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2) USB Request: Each usb request can be encapsulated in it's own object. The classes involved can inherit from each other and each one is completely independent of the driver subsystem. I have included all standard USB commands (according to teh USB spec) and have also implemented others which don't show up here. The idea of having this layer is to allow users to generate libraries of useful requests for whatever hardware they are using. By making the complete set of device requests polymorphic (with drop-down selector) you have an entire device library in a single easy-to-use VI.
Without further ado, I'll attach the base class software here. I'll follow up with some example software with the VISA subsystem later.
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So what are we to do with this?
Here's an example I have personally developed and implemented. As it turns out I had the great benefit of being able to switch from VISA functions to LibUSB functions within about 20 seconds (as designed) because I was getting a wierd error with VISA after 20 odd minutes of operation. Yes, I have filed a CAR. The program ran flawlessly with LibUSB for more than a week.
I had access to the device development specs of course which helped tremendously. I implemented essentially every command possible for the device as it's own control communications package class. Any inputs for the packet could thus be accessed via an enum input on the packet creator. Any outputs were handled similarly with range checks being pefrormed.
By grouping all of these individual classes together into one big polymorphic VI I essentially had the entire library for the instrument present in a single VI with a drop-down menu allowing me to choose the command I wanted to use at the time.
While I can't post the code (past employer) I will post a wuick picture of the intended end usage of this toolkit. At the end of the day this driver allowed me to implement my own control scheme for a brand new instrument (Sodium analyser) while the firmware for the device was not yet developed. It went significantly further than any other firmware (At that time) and implemented a lot of never-before-used functions but having an up-and-running LabVIEW software as reference helped tremendously.
Given the new "Accessor" VIs for classes in LV 2011, even the VIs to access the returned data become polymorphic (pre 2011 this wasn't the case). Of course this software will then run on any platform you happen to have a USB Comms class for (I currently only have LibUSB for Windows and VISA implemented although I HAVE run my software on Linux and Mac using LibUSB). As such with no extra effort I have written an instrument driver which is cross-platform for Windows, Linux, Mac and probably RT as well if the VISA bug has been sorted....
Shane
Say hello to my little friend.
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Creative Cloud Crashes When I Plug In a USB Drive

My problem is that Adobe Creative Cloud application crashes every time I plug in a USB drive. My computer is Windows 7 64-bit. A brief history:
1. I signed up for Creative Cloud and started to download and install the Creative Cloud desktop application (an upgrade to the Application Manager). The installation failed. I tried it again and the installation failed again.
2. Contacted Adobe Tech Support via live chat where the tech took over my computer and did so many things I couldn’t follow what he was doing. He finally got the Creative Cloud desktop application to install successfully. At least we thought so at the time.
3. I was then able to download Photoshop CC and Bridge CC and begin using the applications.
4. A day or two later I discovered the Creative Cloud application (not Photoshop or Bridge) crashes every time I plug in a USB drive.
5. Since then I’ve had two more chat sessions with Adobe tech support where they had me rename some folders to OOBEold and uninstall and reinstall the Creative Cloud desktop application. The last time they had me download and try to run a Creative Cloud Cleaner, but it couldn’t find the Creative Cloud application so we couldn’t run the cleaner. These reinstallations were unproductive as Creative Cloud still crashes when I plug in a USB drive. It doesn’t matter if I use the USB ports on the front or the back of the computer.
Has anyone else experienced this particular issue with Creative Cloud and, if so, were you able to solve the problem?
Is there a graceful way to close the Creative Cloud application instead of using the Task Manager to end the process before I plug in a USB drive? There is a drop-down menu by a gear icon in the upper right of the application window that has Preferences and Quit Creative Cloud as two of the options. What does the option “Quit Creative Cloud” actually mean? Are you just closing the application or are you doing something more serious? Under preferences there is an option that is selected by default to Launch at login. What does “Launch at login” mean? Does it mean when the computer starts up or when you actually go to Adobe and login to your account or something else?
Thank you very much for any suggestions.

Dave,
Thanks for your reply. After four very lengthy tech support chat sessions, the last tech support person (30 July, 2013) suggested that it was probably some sort of conflict with the drivers for the USB ports on my Dell computer. The case number you requested is still open and is: 0184509373.
I spent a lot of time during the last tech chat trying to determine a graceful way to quit the application before using any USB devices. Just clicking on the X to close the window does not close the application as it still shows up as an active process in Windows Task Manager. Our conversation kept getting confused between the Creative Cloud application and the more global Creative Cloud and which you were quitting or logging out of. Adobe should have kept the name “Application Manager” for the application.
After experimenting, I’ve devised the following work around. It’s a nuisance, but it seems to work a little better than just crashing the application. I open the Creative Cloud desktop application and choose “Quit Creative Cloud.” I can then use a USB device without a crash. After disconnecting the USB device, I restart the Creative Cloud application by double clicking on the icon on my desktop. Finally, I can use Photoshop CC and Bridge. If I don’t restart the Creative Cloud application first, Photoshop asks me to register the software again. This puzzles me as I didn’t think the Creative Cloud application had to be running in order to use Photoshop.
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Can I include external usb drives and sticks in Time Machine backups?
This was the question I searched a week for. My machine is a MBAir with Yosemite. I have a bunch of USB HD and sticks. This is a sharing of what it took to solve. I lost a couple of important document revisions lately because of not having differential backups on them, so wanted to include them in Time Machine.
Yes it can, I found. But it's a wee bit backwards. And apparent inconsistencies drive you crazy. Time Machine is supposed to do this by default, and wants you to tell it what NOT to include. Trouble is, formats create many troubles.
But the USB sticks and HD's you buy are PC formatted. And you'd like to share, as the Apple does with FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT (to overcome the 4G size limit on the others). Even NTFS can be plugged in and be read-only. Turns out you just can't incorporate into TM backups.
Open Time Machine Options, and look at the drives listed in the exclusion window. Drives that you know to be plugged in and registered by Finder, may or not be registered in the exclusion window, and if registered and their icons may be bright or dimmed. Bright will NOT be included. Dimmed are excluded. Normally the operation is to use the or to exclude these drives from your next BU operation. (this instruction is lost the next time in manual mode). So if a drive or stick is shown and is bright it WON'T be backed up. If you it from the window, then it will grey out and WILL be backed up. If it's not there to offer you exclusion, you can browse to such a file or device so you can exclude it. TM's exclusion window will show the PC formats: FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT greyed out (as not included). NTFS is bright looking like it might work, but when doesn't dim, it disappears, and is ignored in the actual BU.
Sources are supposed to be included in the backup if it isn't shown bright in the exclusion window. In this respect I only use TM manually, and not for programmed BU's, so I cannot speak to that.
If everything you have is formatted for the Apple disc system (Mac OS Extended) then there are no contradictions or partial equivalences. The mounted disc or stick will show in TM exclusions window, and if you it, you'll see it in the Time Machine pile of calendared directories, with all the files. And of course it will do the differential backups for it that we use TM for in the first place. Just remember to prepare the BU by not excluding.
BUT NOW THE VARIABLES. It now depends upon the formats. I use the Paragon NTFS program to permit writing NTFS. (Apple can normally read but not write NTFS). Paragon is lovely because for normal computer use, I can read and write both Apple and PC files and disc formats in Finder (for 3 years now). But Time Machine cannot be reached by Paragon so it's NTFS behaviors are outrageous. Paragon reaches Disk Doctor so you can read, write, format and heal both Apple and PC formats. And this really confused things respecting Time Machine. I literally worked through every variable, from stick to disc to prove what did work, and when false appearances of working showed up.
Respecting that very Time Machine display of Finder windows piled backwards through time there's a confusing bug. When first opened, TM shows NOW as the current setup and works just like a Finder window in present time. And the outboard discs and sticks show as in Finder. BUT working back in time, the left window DOES NOT SHOW THE CONDITIONS AT BACKUP but rather in all left windows shows the present setup. So you need to work from the right hand side dates and times to go back and see when you had that stick or HD plugged in. And then, finally, you will see the files you wanted saved. But if there is a stick on the left than TM doesn't like but Finder likes you'll see it left but nothing will be in the files. Clicking on the pretender just jumps to the root.
My Disk Doctor provisions (with Paragon) show, Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive Journaled), MS-DOS (FAT), exFAT, Windows NT Filesystem, Windows NT Filesystem (compressed). It's a better utility than in Microsoft and I use it for such maintenance.
Bottom line, I like TM very much. 2 years ago I lost my air and TM was able to reconstruct my machine many times in the course of the troubleshooting - all the way from the start to the last without ever missing a beat or a file. So I accept this limitation and make copies to another HD formatted in NTFS when I work on PCs.
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Jock
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HI there:
I want a program like in KDE that will automaticly mount and allow me to click to unmount my usb drives. I am building machines and I need them to be user friendly and fast. I am running openbox 3.5 with a lxpanel right now. Also how do you allow users to access the usb drives. Here is an example of an error. I am logged in as usera. I fire up shotwell plug in my camera. It detects it I click on the camera and it says
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I log in as root it works perfectly. I hope this all makes sense.
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AliWam wrote:
How do you start openbox?
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Have a look here.
Nice! I just installed Xfce on my new netbook (I use awesome WM and a different automounting solution for my other Arch box) and adding "dbus-launch" right before "startxfce4" on the line that reads:
"exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4"
fixed my problem.
I'm a little confused though, in the wiki it says that, "In case you are wondering, dbus-launch will be launched by the xinitrc.d code at the beginning of the file...." https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce
My .xinitrc is functionally the same as the example in the wiki, so I had thought that somehow dbus-launch wouldn't be necessary. Oh well, it's working now and that's all that matters, thanks for your suggestion AliWam!

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I have an external Maxtor USB Drive 250 Gb formatted as NTFS with apart from other things pictures and mp3 files on it. They are in a folder called media. That folder is about 40 Gb. Every other folder except this folder appears in the Finder folder list.
When I jump into the OS X console (unix command line) I get the same folder list running a ls command. The media folder is still missing. However when I run a cd media command I can jump into the folder and see the files.
I would appreciate any help to explain why I can't see my media folder and access those files.
If I copy about 4 GB of files to my USB thumb drive I can grab all my media files, so I worked around the problem it, but want to know if this is a bug in OS X's 10.4.9 OS or a know limitation. Is the NTFS read only file system fully supported? (large folders, file sizes etc)
Thanks,
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This may happen, but not as a result of switching between Mac and PC.
There are two possible symptoms: the USB drive becomes completely unusable (can't even format it), or the drive becomes tempermental (only works on one machine, develops errors).
The first-case is generally the result of rough-handling or static discharge causing damage to the device. All you can do about it is try to be nicer to your drives.
The second case can occur as the result of three things: 1) you are reaching the write-limit for the device (you can only write each byte on the device so many times before it fails) -- which is unlikely because the things are typically rated for 10,000 writes or more; or 2) the drive is consistently yanked out of the machine without unmounting the filesystem (on the Mac, by "ejecting" the disk or on the PC, by using the little applet in the system tray and selecting "unplug device" AND waiting for confirmation that it is safe to remove); or 3) using a drive that was initially improperly formatted.
It turns out number 3 used to burn Linux users quite a bit. It turned out that certain vendors shipped their USB sticks with a messed up Windows filesystem on them. On Windows machines they would usually work (though Win2K would sometimes have strange issues), but Linux and OS X machines could get confused. The fix was as easy as reformatting the stick before you used it (of course, the vendor, despite receiving many complaints, never acknowledged the problem).

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my friend threw some tunes on a usb drive of mine. i can play the music from the drive but i want to transfer them to my itunes. do i have to import them one by one from the drive? i'm confused please help.

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