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For some bizarre reason, PS CS4 is no longer "finding" my USB 2TB drive in the Finder/Devices window on my iMac (nothing is showing in devices). However, it is seeing my my WD NAS drives, and if I go into Finder on my own, it shows the USB drives. The WD drives are a 2TB MyBook, and a 3TB MyCloud. I have had some issues with _those_ drives showing up in Finder but its usually a WD firmware issue... and its usually the older MyBook drive that gives me problems. Anyway... the aforementioned 2TB USB drive also appears (as it should) on the RHS of my iMac screen. The drive is working just fine, and I have tried powering off the computer and the USB drive... still doesn't show using Photoshop. I can search within finder for the file I want, and right-click to open in "Adobe Photoshop" but I'm so used to grabbing, editing, and saving files from within CS4 that I'm baffled that this drive all of a sudden can't be "seen" from within PS CS4. Previously it had been, so I have to assume its some settings or preferences issue?

As noted above, I am now able to "see" the missing USB drive(s) in Finder so that seems to be resolved. However, a few new issues have cropped up:
1. Not all my installed fonts are in my font listing, but I'll assume I can easily remedy that by activating them (I hope). I have the sneaking suspicion I deleted some by mistake.
2. Safari seems to have gone weird... the upper section is flashing like crazy when I try to type in a URL, also the sidebars flash when I scroll up or down with mouse. I've installed Chrome so I have a stable browser for the time being.
3. No matter what I seem to do in preferences, every new image I open does so within the same window so I have to manually drag it out to compare images. How do I fix that permanently?
4. When I first opened PS this morning I kept getting some sort of error popup that couldn't complete the request?
Is it safe now to remove the new user account?
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