Flash drive won't open, or I'm not seeing it! HELP

I have a flash drive plugged into the correct USB port on my iMac .. but it does not automatically open on my desktop, and I can't find where to locate it! I need to ultimately copy the content from the flash drive onto either a CD or a file that I can then upload to DropBox and share. HELP

By default, the Mac OS does not show mounted drives on the Desktop but you can easily change that. Make sure your can see the word "Finder" at the left end of your menubar. Click the "Finder" menu and find "Preferences."
In the "General" tab of Finder Preferences, check all the boxes in the upper section (the ones I have outlined in red):

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Flash drive won't open

Help! My flashdrive had decied not to open and I'm getting a s.m.a.r.t. status not supported note when i'm trying to open it. What does this mean??? Is all my data lost???

SMART support does not extend to USB flash drives, at least not any I've tried. You can ignore any SMART status comments DU gives.
Does the drive not appear on your desktop at all, or does it appear there but does not respond to a double-click?

Flash Drive won't Open after Yosemite upgrade

I recently updated my MacBook Pro 13' to OS X Yosemite. I went to pull some files off of my 16 GB SanDisk Flash Drive and I couldn't get my Mac to recognize it. I was able to open it before the upgrade. The flash drive does show up in Disk Utility, but that doesn't allow me to open it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I just had a scheduled call with apple support. I showed the representative via screen sharing the error message and the accompanying comments I receive each time when I try to open my Kingston DTVP password protected flash drive. His take on it was that the driver software of my flash drive is not compatible with Yosemite. In theory I have two options:
1 - Upgrade the driver software of my flash drive. I suspect there is only a slight chance that this is possible given that Yosemite is so new so Kingston probably doesn't have an update yet. (I will check with Kingston but their technical support is not open on weekends.) Unfortunately replacing my flash drive is not an option because my employer allows only 2 password protected models to be used on company computers.
2 - Downgrade to the previous operation system (I think it's called Mountain Lion) which I cannot do myself because I don't have TimeMachine on. If I want to do this, I most likely will have to pay for apple support.
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Flash buttons won't open every now and then! *Please help!*

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TX2 DVD Drive Won't Open

I bought the Tx2 2 days ago. I had the keyboard stop working on me and was able to get that fixed. Now the dvd drive won't open. When I first boot up the LED light flashes, letting me know that there is power to it but whenever I push the open button, nothing happens. I have tried ejecting it from the drive icon inside of windows explorer and media player.
I bought this so I could watch movies during my 2 1/2 hour commute so if I can't get this drive open I will be returning it.

Is there a small paperclip-sized hole on the front of, or next to, the drive? If so, you can put a paperclip in there to manually eject the disc drive.
Is the drive showing up in the "Computer" explorer window?
Also, try going to Device Manager and see if the drive is listed or in an error state.
"A riot is the language of the unheard." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

My dvd drive won't open so I can insert a disc. It has opened in the past by pushing the button on my mac

I can't insert any dvd's because my dvd drive won't open when I push the open key. It has always worked in the past. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

It's possible there is a CD/DVD in the drive that's stuck. Open Disk Utility in Applications/Utilities. Do you see a CD/DVD in the drive? Try ejecting using unmount.
If that fails, restart and hold down the mouse button whe restarting.
Other links:
Kappy's Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4795807
Ds store's suggestion: Reboot the computer holding the option key down, wait for the boot drive options to appear, then press the eject key on the keyboard. When it's out, then select your boot drive and click the arrow key to boot up.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Force_Eject_a_Stuck_CD_or_DVD
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Hello. I bought a Thinkpad Edge E440 and it came yesterday. However the CD/DVD Drive won't open. If it do the paperclip trick, it will, but when I press the button it just makes a few noises and then nothing, if I right click the drive and press eject, same result. Any suggestions please?

reliablepctechs wrote:
obtain a paper clip, straighten it out and insert it in the small hole found on the bezel of the cdrom drive. Doing so mechanically releases the drive...
take reasonable care in doing so....insert it about an inch or so
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Just noticed my disc drive won't open using the eject key...I can open tray with toast and disc will mount and eject it.. but eject key won't work...have repaired permissions after the updates... one was for bluetooth which I don't have installed..other was security...
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What system do you have? From what I read it looks as if you haven't yet installed 10.4.3.
Try (re-)installing 10.4.3 using the combined upgrade.
Oops... I just saw you indcated you are running 10.3.7. Any reason you did not upgrade to 10.3.9? My advice to reinstall the combined update to the latest system still holds
Before that, just to be safe (one never knows) don't forget to backup!
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My DVD drive won't open when I click the button

Hi there
I'm hoping someone can help me.
My DVD drive won't open when I click the button.
I've tried clicking on eject on the DVD Drive icon in My Computers and it comes up with an error message.
I think I deleted cookies the other day. Could that have anything to do with the problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really don't want to send my laptop away to a technician.

Hi
Try to open the CD/DVD drive manually.
Near the eject button you will find a small hole.
You could use a small object like staple and could push it carefully into this hole.
Usually this should helps to open the drive manually.

Disk Drive won't open: Root Cause

I've seen several posts here and elsewhere on why the DVD/CD drive won't open/eject on the Mac Pro or Macbook. Pressing the keyboard button doesn't eject it, and neither do any terminal commands. After banging my head against a wall I found the cause: VMWare Fusion had "mounted" the DVD-drive so the Mac thought the drive was terminally "busy". If you have Parallels, the same may be happening to you as well.
P.S. I suspect a similar thing may be happening with my external hard drive, which I have set up as my Time Machine drive. I periodically get a message that Time Machine encountered an error but no details. The drive may be hijacked by VMWare when Time Machine tries to access it...

VMware can grab USB devices too. It's a good idea to make sure your VM's aren't set to attach the cd/dvd drive automatically when they start.

G3 iBook white: CD drive won't open, emits beep

When I push F12 on my g3 white iBook the computer beeps and the drive won't open on its own.
I have to use an opened paper clip to pop the tray open.
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Is there a firmware fix for this?
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Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Have you tried dragging the CD's icon to the trash? Does that give the same result?
When there are operating anomalies, one of the first troubleshooting steps is to reset the PMU. You may want to try that, but I fear it may be a hardware problem with your optical drive.

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My mail won't open and keeps on "not responding"

Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Go to Library/Containers/com.apple.mail. Move the folder com.apple.mail to your desktop. You must move the entire folder, not just the contents.
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IPhoto won't open due to the not being updated but when I check to upgrade to iPhoto 11 it tells me it is installed. The photos in the library were modified using 9.1.5 and the iPhoto is said to be 7.1.5 (iPhoto 8). Any ideas?

iPhoto won't open due to the not being updated but when I check to upgrade to iPhoto 11 it tells me it is installed. The photos in the library were modified using 9.1.5 and the iPhoto is said to be 7.1.5 (iPhoto 8). Any ideas?

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Fix #2
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