More troubles transferring Droid photos to Mac

I had this problem last fall where I connected my droid to my Mac via USB and no icon appeared on the screen. Thanks to some good advice here which said to go to Settings>Applications>Development>check USB debugging, I got the "No Name" icon to appear on the screen. I then had no problem transferring my droid photos to iPhoto.
But today, now no icon appears on the screen again. I checked "USB debugging" as before and it didn't work. I also remembered a bit of advice about Settings>Connectivity>Default connection mode>Choose Mass storage. I did that and still no luck.
I am simply trying to get the droid icon to appear on my Mac screen. It has done this for the better part of a year but suddenly it stopped. The only thing that may be affecting it is that I ran out of memory due to filming too much video. Obviously I want to transfer the vids and photos to my Mac and then deleter them from my droid in order to free up more memory.
Anyone out there have any more ideas for me? Thanks.

Hi James, try this for a start...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot.
Check Finder>Preferences>General & Sidbar tabs, what all is checked there?

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