USB memories (SD, mini SD) do not appear in the finder since last OSX update.
When I connect USB memory (USB stick, SD thru adapter) it appear a few second in the Finder and desappears.
The same happens with my phone in "disk" mode.
it does not appear in the USB "tree" in About mac; more information.
last update mid of november.
Système : Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Kernel : Darwin 10.8.0
It turned out to be a Systems Preferences setting that the update had changed - can't remember which now, it's been too long.
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Time capsule does not appear in the finder.
My time capsule appears in airport utility. It is ready to go. I have it on ethernet because airport isn't a very powerful wireless router. The time capsule does not appear in the finder. It does not appear in the disc utility. It does not appear in time machine. The airport utility will do factory resets, get it ready for internet, whatever. The rest of my net work can not see it.
I have done the finder preferences. I have restarted the computer, jiggered the sharing preferences, done factory resets, tried to find sparce bundles and sparse bundles, reset the finder, force quit finder, tried to find finder plsts, trawled the discussion pages, tried to find server addresses and apple ids. Nothing seems to work.
Time capsule never seems to work as smoothly as it supposed to. I shudder to present my problems to apple support because I know that its a long road and will probably end in tears. But here I am, naked before this disappointing edifice.
Does anyone have any ideas?What is the make and model number of your modem?
I have a microwave modem on my roof. I don't think that has anything to do with this. I am not using my airport for a wireless router, only as a time capsule connected by ethernet. The Airport Utility calls my airport : Airport Extreme 802.11 ( 1st Generation )
Is the Time Capsule acting as your main router or is another device handling those services?
No, I have a lyncsis router. The wireless router function on airports doesn't seem to work very well. I don't think thats a problem with mine. My brothers have gone with lyncsis as well.
Was the Time Capsule visible in the Finder before, and is now "lost", or has it never appeared in the Finder?
It appeared on my previous laptop. That died. Now I have an imac. The airport has never appeared on the imac.
Thanks for trying to help so quickly
JOhn -
My hard drive does not appear in the Finder window
I installed a second internal hard drive inside my G5, but it never shows up in the finder window, nor anytime I try to access files from within applications (it appears on the desktop though). How can I configure my computer so that it always sees this drive and grants me access?
The reason for resetting nvram is to force the G5 to rebuild the device tree, which it seems "loath" to do without a kick start.
Swapping drives oddly enough seems to leave a profile in nvram for the old device.
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Home folder do not appear in the finder menu - How can I get it back?
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Mac OS X 10.4.11
FileVault: On
System: Restarted
Home folder: still somewhere in the hard drive but not yet in my account
Initial bad manipulation: home folder > get info > ownership & permissions > you can > No Access
<and> Owner > No Acces
Hello all,
Here is my problem:
Basically, I do not have the home folder in my account when I log in.
Hopefully I remember well what have led to this consequence.
To begin, in the finder menu for the home folder I opened the get info pop-up. Then, under "Ownership & Permissions" I have replaced "Read & Write" by "No Access" both in "you can" and under "Details - Owner".
Per consequence, I couldn't read a document in this folder. Hence, I've tried to to go backward and change the "No Access" to "Read & Write" but it couldn't work.
Then, I restarted the session - but because I had filevault turned on - it screwed.
Then, when I logged in back I got this message:
"The home folder for user "XX" is not located in the usual place or cannot be accessed.
The home or users folder may have been moved or deleted. If the home folder is located or the network, he server may be unavailable temporarily. If you continue to have problems, see your administrator."
Do anyone have already encountered a similar problem?
Thanks a lot,
/HFG,
One more thing, from this other admin account (good one) I went in terminal and >I observed that the folder that I'm having trouble with does not have the "d" letter.
Basically, it's written:
"-rwxr-xr-x 1 bobip bouba 23701154564 Nov 12 15:31 lol.sparseimage"
What you think? Souldn't be coded as "d_rwx...
Remember what I wrote earlier:
A FileVault account instead puts all of its data into an encrypted disk image - in fact an encrypted sparseimage. If FileVault is enabled, the home folder for that account no longer directly contains the Documents, Pictures, and other data subfolders - all that the home folder really contains is a single file named username.sparseimage. When you log in to the FileVault account and give your password, this disk image mounts and you can access your files.
That "lol.sparseimage" does contain all your data, but it is a file and not a folder, which is why its permissions start with a "-" and not a "d". It is a "disk image file," very similar to the .dmg files that you download from the internet. When a disk image file is opened it will mount a "virtual" disk volume, which behaves very much like a real external disk volume.
Let's call the shortname of your FileVault account "fv" as Robert did. So as I wrote earlier, when you are logged out, your file structure is going to look like:
HD>Users>fv>fv.sparseimage
When you log in, the name of the lol folder is changed to .fv, with the lol.sparseimage file still inside. The leading period hides it from finder. But more importantly, a "virtual disk" named "fv" mounts and opens, which contains all your stuff. The "fv" disk icon is hidden from Finder and doesn't show on the desktop, but it is there.
The mounted disk volume "fv" has access permissions just as a file or folder does, and looking back at what you did, *I think you changed the permissions on that mounted volume*, and not on the sparseimage file that holds it - you would not have seen the sparseimage file from Finder. If you did this then the permissions for both the HD>Users>fv folder and also for the sparseimage file were probably OK all along. I'm not sure what you've now done to them, which is why I advised backing up before doing anything.
So to sum up - there are three different entities that need to have the proper permission structure for the FileVault account to work properly:
1. The folder "fv" in /Users (assuming you are logged out. If logged in it would be .fv)
2. The *sparseimage file* "fv.sparseimage", which is inside that fv folder.
3. The *disk volume* 'fv" that mounts when the fv sparseimage file is opened and the correct FileVault password is given.
I tried creating a test filevault account to check these permissions, and you could try to reproduce what I found. My suggestion in trying to fix things is to do it from Finder, not from Terminal.
I would
1) Log out of the FileVault account,
2) From the other admin account, [enable the root user (Tiger)|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528?viewlocale=en_US], and then log in as root.
Then from the root account:
1) Do a Get Info on the folder /Users> fv. Set the owner to fv, with Read only access, set Group to fv with "No Acess" and set Others to "No Access.' Do not click Apply to enclosed items.
2) Do a Get Info on the file fv.sparseimage. Set the owner to fv, with Read and Write access, set Group to fv with No Access, and set Others to "No Access.' Do not click Apply to enclosed items.
3. Double-click the fv.sparseimage file (and cross your fingers!). When asked for a password, give the password from the FileVault account, not your current root password. Look on the Desktop for a new "fv" disk icon.
(Your stuff is in there - if you have ANY type of backup storage, even a thumb drive, you could double-click the fv disk icon and copy the most valuable files somewhere else)
Do a Get Info on the fv disk icon, and set the owner to "unknown" with Read and Write Access, the Group to "unknown" with No Access, and Others to No Access. Most importantly, *check the box for "Ignore ownership on this volume"*. Do not click Apply to enclosed items.
So again, the three Get Infos (as seen from the root account) on my fv folder, my fv.sparseimage file, and my fv mounted volumes look like this:
!http://i34.tinypic.com/krf4h.jpg!
The important permissions are those under "Details". Ignore the part that says "*You have*: No Access." ( You are root, and you actually do have access)
If all seems well, then right-click >eject the mounted fv disk icon on the desktop, log out of root, and try logging back into your Filevault account. -
I'm on an imac running mountain lion. I know it has air drop on it, but it's not showing up in the finder window for my user account. How can I get it to show up on my user account? And yes, I do have administrator rights.
Which os are you using on your computer?
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hello im currently using....iMAC snowleopard 10.6.8
3.06 GHz intel i3i need some help please....my mac acceppts cds and dvds... my drive is located at the right of the screen.....but no icon appears in desktop and finder......also...it does not read....any cd....does not read any dvd either.....it ejects the cds after a while on its own....also it does not burn any cd.....wen i tried....errors with 0x06 ....medium errors,....show up.....also...i tried reinstalling the mac os.....but when i restart the pc...and...keep C key pressed...the cd just gets ejected.....can someone please help me with this problem?????? i contacted APPLE too.. but they said it must be a software problem......also no apple macbookair superdrive does not get connected to the mac either.....PLEASE HELP!!!!
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How can I eject a disc that does not appear in the Finder?
I put a CD into my Mac that spun and spun but never registered in the Finder or anywhere else, but now I can't eject it. Is there a physical way to do that like there is on a PC?
... or press the (left) mouse button immediately after chime, and keep it until disk is ejected.
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New Hard disk is not appearing in the System Profiler
I am doing a fresh install using my ligitimate Snow Leopard DVD on my USB disk.
My SSD is not appearing in the System Profiler under Hardware>ATA
or under Hardware>Serial-ATA
It is a PATA device as was the original disk I've replaced.
So I have NO disk to install onto.
Any ideas what the problem could be?
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History
My hard disk died, and I am replacing it with an SSD.
I bought a Mach Xtreme Technology Pata 1.8" SSD (Part no MXSSD1MNANOZ-120G)
(I can send this back if I have to)
The SSD is unusual in that it has to be a 1.8" size with a ZIF PATA connector.
The SSD is preformatted (but not necessarily to Apple formatting).
With the SSD the same way around to the original 80GB HDD, Pin 1 of the new SSD is towards the back of the computer.
I cannot find any information as to which Pin on the original HDD is Pin 1.
I used this tutorial to dismantle and reassemble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnV7mHS7Qi8
I've double checked the connections inside.Thanks, this was the answer.
The connector on the SSD I used was indeed arranged reverse to the original Apple Drive. So it looked different to all the tutorials.
I knew where Pin 1 was on the new SSD but could not see it on the old drive.
The original 80GB hard disk had Pin 1 is towards the middle of the computer.
Flipping the SSD over meant it was about 3mm closer to the back, which made the zif ribbon buckle. So I had to cut away some of the rubber shock absorber to the back, and use tape. The SSD should not need the shock absorber as it is not mechanical/vibrating.
It is now working well.
(Although I now have a different problem restoring from the Time Machine. ) -
my iphone 4 does not appear in my(windows 7) lap top, when i connect i can hear the sound of usb connected, but its not appear in the itunes or computer, and its not charging when i connected to the laptop as well, bit confusing, help please
Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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I'm new to this and I think I typed a long heading!
Anyway the issue is I have iTunes and just updated it to the latest. I also have various Apple devices however my iPhone won't sync with iTunes. When I connect it using the USB cable it does not appear in the top right corner as does other devices. The cable is fine as it charges and also my PC sees the device. However it does not appear in iTunes so I can't sync music to it.
I've searched the web but all asume iTunes can see the device.
Help!?Hi David,
If you are having issues with your iPhone not being recognized by iTunes on your Windows machine, you may find the troubleshooting steps in the following article helpful:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
Regards,
- Brenden -
Been using an Avastor HDX-800 for storage and backup, also a SUPERDISK for smaller stuff; recently the SUPERDISK does not appear on the screen, and the light blinks while you hear it spin, also the Avastor has started to have the same problem, both USB conncected, both worked well before, but both now spinning, blinking, and not showing up on the screen as before,
Interestingly they both appear in the System Profiler, but just not working the same as before
I have tried other USB ports, but the same responce,yes I did reset the PRAM, but no benefit, still the same problem
my usb devices are: keyboard, mouse, printer, SD-USB-M3, and LaCie d2 DVDRW:
the mouse and printed are plugged into the keyboard: i have tried to move, these around, and have even tried just the mouse, printer and SD-USB-M3, but still the same problem
here is a cut and paste of the current "System Profiler>Hardware>USB" (usb device tree)
USB Bus:
Host Controller Location: Built In USB
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBOHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x0026
PCI Revision ID: 0x0000
PCI Vendor ID: 0x106b
Bus Number: 0x18
Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version: 1.22
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Mitsumi Electric
Product ID: 0x1002
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
HL-1270N series:
Version: 1.00
Bus Power (mA): 100
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Brother
Product ID: 0x0008
Serial Number: L9J286292
Vendor ID: 0x04f9
Basic Optical Mouse:
Version: 0.00
Bus Power (mA): 100
Speed: Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product ID: 0x0084
Vendor ID: 0x045e
Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version: 1.22
Bus Power (mA): 250
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Mitsumi Electric
Product ID: 0x0204
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
SuperDisk USB 120MB drive:
Version: 0.0e
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Imation
Product ID: 0x0002
Vendor ID: 0x0718
Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version: 1.22
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Mitsumi Electric
Product ID: 0x1002
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
HL-1270N series:
Version: 1.00
Bus Power (mA): 100
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Brother
Product ID: 0x0008
Serial Number: L9J286292
Vendor ID: 0x04f9
Basic Optical Mouse:
Version: 0.00
Bus Power (mA): 100
Speed: Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product ID: 0x0084
Vendor ID: 0x045e
Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version: 1.22
Bus Power (mA): 250
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Mitsumi Electric
Product ID: 0x0204
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
HL-1270N series:
Version: 1.00
Bus Power (mA): 100
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Brother
Product ID: 0x0008
Serial Number: L9J286292
Vendor ID: 0x04f9
Basic Optical Mouse:
Version: 0.00
Bus Power (mA): 100
Speed: Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product ID: 0x0084
Vendor ID: 0x045e
Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version: 1.22
Bus Power (mA): 250
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Mitsumi Electric
Product ID: 0x0204
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
SuperDisk USB 120MB drive:
Version: 0.0e
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Imation
Product ID: 0x0002
Vendor ID: 0x0718
USB Bus:
Host Controller Location: Built In USB
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBOHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x0026
PCI Revision ID: 0x0000
PCI Vendor ID: 0x106b
Bus Number: 0x19
LaCie d2 DVDRW USB:
Capacity: 451.76 MB
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
Version: 0.00
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: LaCie
OS9 Drivers: No
Product ID: 0x1011
Serial Number: FFFFFFFFFFFF
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Vendor ID: 0x059f
LaCie d2 DVDRW USB:
Capacity: 451.76 MB
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
Version: 0.00
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: LaCie
OS9 Drivers: No
Product ID: 0x1011
Serial Number: FFFFFFFFFFFF
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Vendor ID: 0x059f -
Since changing to OS 10.7.1. my touch ipod does not appear on the screen or in itunes
Since upgrading to OS 10.7.1, my touch Ipod (version 4.2.1, model PB528LL) does not appear on the iTunes as a device on the computer screen. It also seems that the ipod is no longer being charged via the USB connection.
Any assistance would be appreciated.I think you mean iTunes 10.4.1. That is the lastes version. Try here:
iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows -
Police does not appear in the left corner iMovie11 viewer, any idea?
Police does not appear in the left corner iMovie11 viewer, any idea?
Hi Bengt,
actually I just found what is the problem, if I choose the Halo effect in the Title navigator (sorry if the words are not exactly it, mine is in French so I translate) I do not have the "show the polices" in the upper left corner of the viewer, but if I choose another one like a lateral effect, it appears and I can modify the polices and colors of my title. Go figure?!
I spent maybe 2 hours trying to understand that, well I think it is a glitch, but maybe just on the French version, I don't know. -
I am trying to import video footage from my sony camera on to imovie. The camera does not appear on the drop down when i connect it to the pc via usb. Anyone any ideas?
I'm using a zr500 via firewire and it doesn't recognize it either. Are you using firewire?
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I own toshiba laptops. Both computers have the latest itunes software. However the 'show menu' does not appear on the screen?
Thanks for the response diesel. I dont think I clarified my question very well. I'm trying to do home sharing between mine and my wifes computers. The intructions say:
Log in as the same user on each computer.
Ensure both are current version.
Choose the correct list in sharing ie Music
Then in the 'show menu' at the bottom of the screen, choose items not in my library.
I do not have the show menu to select any songs.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
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