Jump drive freezes Finder

When I connect a 256MB jump drive to my keyboard USB, Finder takes a minute to open show its contents and then will continue to spin. It will not allow access to any files on the drive and I get Finder (not responding).
Also, when this happens, Relaunching Finder does not work. What should be done instead?
Thanks!

Right--I don't really care about the jump drive. But what can be done if relaunching Finder does nothing--other than doing a hard shut down?

Similar Messages

Jump Drive does not appear in finder

Since installing Leopard none of my jump drives appear in the finder even after checking the appropriate boxes.

Thought I'd post a couple of screenshots to help - a pic is worth.....
This is the System Preferences > CD/DVD Pane which no longer appears on Macs without an optical drive (this is from my MBP with a Superdrive):
This is the iPhoto Preferences window (within iPhoto):
But, none of that applies to external optical drives because they will never show - the preferences you set will show the media, but not the drive. My external optical drive is brand new from OWC and it does not show. However, it works like a charm.
As for your RAID setup - as I said, i can't help there because I have never used it.

My GoFlexPro for Mac external drive will not work and freeze Finder after I switched to Mountain Lion. Anyone same trouble?

My GoFlexPro for Mac external drive will not work and freezes Finder after I switched to Mountain Lion. Anyone same trouble?

Search this site for many reports of problems with GoFlex drives.

I want to download Firefox 17 to a jump drive on a Windows machine and install it on my Mac. Can I do this?

I live in Mountain View and use Google WiFi which is provided by Google for the City of Mountain View. For the past few months, they have been having a BIG problem with the corruption of downloads. Even teensy tiny ones. Perhaps you've heard about it since you're also in Mountain View. They have not responded to repeated posts from the forum... I have an iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I haven't been able to update my software. I go to Lane Medical Library at Stanford to use the Windows machines there. I load whatever standalone software that I can onto a jump drive and install it at home. Unfortunately, some sites (like Apple and maybe even Mozilla!) recognize the computer you're on and only allow you to download software compatible with the machine that you are actually sitting at. This means that I can't reinstall Safari because I can't get a copy of it. And it looks like I might not be able to install Firefox 17.0 either. At least, that's what I'm trying to find out. "We've made some educated guesses about your current browser and operating system." See what I mean? So when I go to the library, will I be able to download a copy of Firefox 17.0 for the Mac and install it on my computer at home? Thanks!

You can find the latest Firefox release in all languages and for all Operating Systems here:
*Firefox 17.0.x: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
Download and save the DMG file for Mac on the jump drive and install the program in the usual way.
S*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Mac

How can I export a playlist to a jump drive?

My new motorcycle has a stereo with a usb port. I am using an iPod, but i frequently have dropouts or disconnects. I would like to try a jump drive, but pulling songs out of the folders takes so long…if I could drag a current playlist to the drive that would be much preferred. Plus it would take the album art with it. That leads to question #2…if I have to build a playlist by pulling songs out of folders, is there a way to get the album art? If not from iTunes, is there some other software? I checked out media monkey, but it does not appear to be iMac compatible.

Playlists are not in Finder, they are in iTunes. In reality they are only a list of tracks in your library file, not a specific arrangement of files in Finder. It's like a recipe in a cookbook. You have a recipe for cake and it tells you the ingredients for that cake which you have in various places in the kitchen. You probably do not keep the shelves in your kitchen arranged by recipe, otherwise you would have 50 containers of salt, 30 of flour, etc. If your files were arranged by playlist on the computer you might end up with 10 copies of the same file and people would quickly complain here about wasting drive space.
Open a Finder window, make it smaller and place it on the left side of your screen.
Open iTunes and make the window smaller and place it on the right side of your screen.
Click on a playlist and drag it from the iTunes window to the flash drive open in the Finder window, or even just where it shows in the sidebar if you have your preferences set for drives to display. All the files that make up the contents of that playlist will be copied to the flash drive. You won't see a playlist as such, but you will see all the files in that playlist. How your motorcycle's player handles things from this point really depends upon the motorcycle's player software and you will have to read the manual for that. Some only play a bunch of files alphabetically. Some may use specific playlist files to make a more orderly structure similar to iTunes, and then there's a whole different question as to how to generate that.

Why does my Western Digital drive freeze my OSX

Hey all!
I'm in a bad spot.
Yesterday I was going through files on my 6TB western digital my book hard drive connected to my old iMac running snow leopard. I had been playing many different movie files from my camera in quick time player to categorize them during a couple of days and everything had been fine. But all of a sudden quick time froze and wouldn't answer so I had to force quit it and then I tried again, then the same thing happened and then Finder and everything froze and I had to force shut off the computer by holding down the power button. Then the same thing happened after I restarted the computer. After each time I have to force off the computer the WD hard drive still has its light on and keep sounding like it's working hard and I have to pull the power plug from it to make it stop.
Then I started it again to try to just copy files from it but the drive would freeze OSX again. So I connected it to my old macbook pro and the same thing happened but then I tried to connect it with usb instead of fire wire and it seemed to act normal. Then I replaced the firewire and tested and it seemed to work fine on both computers. So I assumed it was the firewire cable that was causing problems. Since I was a bit shaken I started to do backups of everything from the hard drive and copied a folder of 323 GB during the night. In the morning it had copied everything but 10 GB and had frozen again. So again I connected both to the Macbook Pro and copied over what was missing. Then I tried to copy another folder but it froze again.
It behaves very irrational in my eyes and I wonder what is wrong and what to do?
When I start the computer without that drive, it acts normally and the same goes for when I connect another external hard drive.
Did a control with disk utility on both the internal and the external drives, and it said they are fine.
I didn't notice that the hard drive was standing in the sun which was shining through the window behind my iMac and the room was quite warm. Can that be what started all this?
Also I noticed that the folder that I did a backup of, shows different content size on the Macbook pro and on the iMac. And this goes for both the original folder and the backup on the other external drive. Finder says both folders are 301 GB on the Macbook and 323 on the iMac. This freaks me out since this is a very important folder and I can't loose 22 GB. Anyone who knows why this can be?
I would be extremely grateful for any thoughts on this!
Thanks

nopointsforsecondplace wrote:
Thanks a lot rccharles, I'm gonna try this.
When data rescue (data recovery software) makes a clone of the problem disk, does it use the disk in another way than when it does normal data recovery? When I try to do data recovery it freezes after maybe 20 minutes just as when I just copy files in Finder, is it different when making a clone?
I don't know how Data Rescue works (it's proprietary software).
It does sound like your disk could be physically damaged (you still need to try an external case) - if you continue to try to repair you may lose even more data until the disk is totally unreadable. Imagine a spec of dust scratching across your data - the act of trying to read & re-read can cause more damage. As more pieces of disk get scratched off the platters the entire inside of the mechanism gets covered in dust, resulting in more scratches, more data loss…
Seriously, the best option you have is to take it to data recovery professionals for them to look at it. They may be able to open it & replace failed parts or take a copy with a limited amount of corrupted files. Some indications may be the sound the disk makes when it 'freezes' - but that is only a guide for professional ears.
Recovery software can try to re-read data when disks encounter errors. Some smart recovery software will force the disk to avoid retrying these - that skips over the damage - the files in the damaged area will be unusable but the surrounding data may still be recoverable. Professionals may take one copy & avoid using the disk until they have diagnosed how it failed - limiting the potential for more damage.
ddrescue is one command line tool that will clone without retrying to re-read, but that is complex to use.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Here are examples from an old disk that ground up itself…
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=107678
Your issue probably is not be the same as that example, I'm not trying to scare you but you should consider how important this data is, repeated recovery attempts can make that impossible even for professionals.

Why is external hard drive freezing on iTunes upload?

I have been having problems with uploading music from an external hard drive into iTunes for about a month and I do not know what to do. I recently purchased a HP Envy 15 running Windows 7 64bit home edition. I decided to scrub my iTunes library and start new with uploading selected CDs and purchases from both Apple and Amazon onto the external hard driv e (Western Digital 1TB). Putting the music on the external hard drive is not an issue as I see that all of my music files are there. However, when it comes to adding all my music folders into iTunes the problem starts. The upload will get to song 200-300 and both the hard drive and program will freeze. When I first purchased the laptop I tried the same thing and connecting my iPod classic to the laptop and had the same issue causing my whole computer to freeze following by the blue screen of death. Concerned, I sent my laptop to HP to fix thinking my USB drives were bad. I just received back a week ago and I am having a repeat issue minus the blue screen of death. Again, putting my CDs onto the external hard drive was not a problem at all, but when I want to add my Amazon MP3 files, other iTunes music and other folders my external hard drive freezes.
I have my external plugged into the USB 3.0 port while attempting the upload and not sure if this is the issue. I am also unsure if enough power is getting to the hard drive during upload as I have read about this being an issue for some users. Can anyone provide any assistance on this? I am trying to avoid putting all 5000-7000 songs on my main drive to get my music back on my iPod and find this super annoying. Any assistance would be great, thanks.

Nope, one of the selling points of the drive was that it came ready to work with both Mac and Windows (the product description says there is an NTFS drive installed for use on Mac). No hacking or installing on my part.
But I think I figured it out. Apparentely, Mavericks comes installed with something that does not allow it to write NTFS no matter what (well, unless you go through a whole bunch of technical stuff to rewrite the software). My old MacBook was Leopard.
I'll just reformat the external hard drive for Mac, and if I ever need to use it on a Windows, I'll install HFS+ Explorer on the Windows. Oh well.

Removing iTunes music from my Hard Drive and placing on a Jump Drive.

I would like to remove then delete the songs I have on my Hard Drive. It's taking up a lot space. I am currently using operating system Windows XP and the latest version of iTunes. Can someone suggest the best way of doing this? I would like to use a jump drive to do this but any other suggestions would be appreciated. There are hundreds of songs on my hard drive. Thanks!

I'm not sure I'd want to risk my tracks on a USB flash drive, but if you have one large enough - if your iTunes library takes up too much space on your hard drive, is it really going to fit on a USB flash drive? - you can find instructions here:
iTunes: Moving Your iTunes Music Folder
Don't delete the tracks from the old location until you've confirmed that they're working correctly from the external drive. And IMPORTANT: do not delete the iTunes folder or the preference files it contains from your boot hard drive; delete ONLY the tracks themselves (i.e. the contents of the old iTunes Music folder).
Forum Tip: Since you're new here, you've probably not discovered the Search feature available on every Discussions page, but next time, it might save you time (and everyone else from having to answer the same question multiple times) if you search a couple of ways for a topic, both in the relevant forums, in the User Tips Library and in the Apple Knowledge Base before you post a question.
Regards.

I tried to download images from a jump drive and now the jump drive seems blank. How can I recover the images? Is there a software program out there to do this reliably?

I took photographs with my Lumix camera (JPG) and put the sd chip into a jump drive and put them into my usb port to load. The images never loaded and now the sd chip has no images when I put it back into the camera. What can I do to restore the images? Is there Mac compatible software out ther to restore them? I am running a Macbook Pro OS X v 10.7.5. Thanks for your help.

I'm not sure I can help you with this situation. Odds are you probably can't recover the images if they aren't hidden in the card, but this just seems to be a fluke. I've had flash drives that be plugged in only to find out that was their iminant death.

Recording to a USB jump drive?

Does anyone record to a USB jump drive? I was thinking of getting a 64 gig drive for this purpose and wondered if anyone had any experience with this. Thanks....

Locate the music in the Finder and drag the song files to the drive. You may also be able to drag them to the drive directly from iTunes.
(59765)

How do you save documents to a jump drive from a macbook pro?

I'm trying to save something I wrote on my computer to a jump drive. How do I do that?

Find the file(s) you want to save. This sometimes requires opening an additional Finder window.
Drag the file you want and drop it in the open window of the jump drive. The default for drive-to-drive is to replicate on the new drive, leaving the original unchanged. Its Icon (or a plain one) should appear in the window on the destination drive within a few seconds.
NB> when done, you must EJECT the drive, wait a quarter minute, then remove it from the USB port

HT1338 How do I retrieve documents off of a jump drive?

I am trying to get my husbands resume off of his jump drive. I plug in the drive and nothing happens.

Choose "Computer" from the Go menu in Finder.
Does it show up there?
If it does, but doesn't show up anywhere else, check the Finder Preferneces, Sidebar and General.
Check the boxes to show External Disks where you want them.
If it doesn't show up there, open System Information by holding down the Option (alt) key and select it from the Apple menu.
Select USB from the Hardware section and see if it shows up on one of the busses.
Also, what do you mean by "jump drive?" I've seen that term used for various things, from flash memory sticks to portable hard drives. If you are describing a portable hard drive, that might factor into the issue.

Plug and Play not showing up on desktop - camera, jump drive, etc.

Hi all:
On my Macbook Pro, none of the so-called "plug and play" devices show up on the desktop as they normally would on a Mac computer. I tried my ipod, camera, and usb jump drive. Is there a setting that I could have set on to make it like this??
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Go to Finder>Preferences>General, and you will find some boxes to check so that external devices will show up on the desktop. I'm not sure your camera would show up on the desktop--but it will appear in iPhoto if you want to put your pictures in iPhoto. Your iPod and jump drive will show up for sure.
Good luck!

Distinguishing two jump drives?

I have learned, from recent unpleasant experience with nonreturnable wireless peripherals, to ask questions BEFORE I buy anything new.
I am considering buying a second jump drive, for easy and frequent backup of text files. (I am a writer and loathe the idea of losing work, so I not only Save frequently, but drag-and-drop my word files to a jump drive several times a day.)
Currently, my single jump drive appears as an icon ("Lexar") on my screen. What will happen if I add another jump drive, for extra backup? Will my OS automatically label it Lexar 2 or something of that order so that I can readily distinguish them? Or will the OS become confused?
In general, are there any pitfalls I should be aware of before buying one or more additional jump drives? Long-term, I intend to rotate them, keeping at least one in another location, in case of fire destroying my computer and the attached jump drive.
(Despite unpleasant experiences with a local Mac store, I LOVE my Mac mini system and I love being back in the Apple world again.)
Mac mini 1,25 GHz,512 MB, 40 GB combo Mac OS X (10.4.5) Nec MultiSync LCD 175 VX. Lexar Jump Drive plugged into top of Belkin USB hub.

hi. Welcome to the boards. OS X is a little more forgiving them Windows. If you have a Jump Drive called Lexar and it's on your Desktop, once you plug in another Jump Drive that's identical, it will also say Lexar and appear on your desktop.
From there, you can change the name and you can even change the icon to make it even more personalized.
To change icons:
To select the icon you wish to use:
1) Click on the icon you wish to use
2) At the menu bar click Edit – Copy
To change the old icon to the new icon:
1) Click on the icon for the application you wish to change
2) Click on Finder – File – Get Info
3) In the Get Info window, click on the icon you wish to change (Top left corner)
4) At the menu bar, click - Edit – Paste
For great icons, check here: http://www.xicons.com
Hope that helps,
AL

Disk utility on jump drive trashed my files.

I rip a lot of CD books and listen to them when I get the chance. I have been putting stuff on a jump drive until needed and then moving it back to the hard drive. Today, I was getting some strange activity, I decided to use disk utility to fix it. After a repair where it seemed to find a bunch of dangling bits and repaired them, I now have what were previous folders with audiophiles turned into exec files. Any way to recover this?

10.5.3 is the latest. You can use MS-DOS to format the flash dirve and the Dell will read it. Are you certain, though, that he's plugging the thing in correctly? If Windows sees a disk that it can't read, it should prompt the user to either eject or format it.
PowerMac G5 dual 2.0/iMac DVse/iBook 12 1.2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Jump drive freezes Finder

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for