Mountain Lion and Docking on a MBP

At home I have a multiple USB port adaptor throught which I connnect mutiple peripherals to my MBP. In partilcular this is used to connect boththe hard drive I use for Time Machine and my HP pronter scanner. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion I find that when bringing the MBP home from work, plugin in the USB adaptor and opening up the lid the system wakes up form sleep mde fine but does not see the peripherlas connected through the USB adaptor. Unplugging it and plugging it back in has no effect. If I press restart, however, everything is recognised and works fine after the re-boot. I have been used to pressing the soft eject button on the time machine capsule in Finder and then closing the lid to put the MBP into sleep mode before taking it to work and then reversing the process in the evening. Indeed, on OS X Lion I have often run the machine for months without rebooting. A major time savong benefit by comparison with a windows machine! Is there any way to force Mountain Lion to "see" the peripherals just plugged in without re-bootong the system?

I installed 10.8.1 three times.
I completly erased my SSD twice.
I repaired it with Disk Utlity, repaired permissions, repaired it with Disk Warrior, Reset the P-Ram, etc...
A lot of people (at least in Italy) are having similar issues.
It is the very first time that a new OS disappoints me that much.
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I did a clean reinstall of mountain lion and for some reason the dock keeps osx lion format. Does someone how to uptade only dock application?
Tks

Try doing a Dock restart using the following Terminal command:
killall Dock
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You need to look in your user Library/Applications Support/Dock for the .db. Hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command. Enter ~/ Library/Applications Support/Dock. Move the .db to your desktop.
If you prefer to make your user library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/04/show-library-directory-in-mac-os-x-lion/
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Hello!
I have an opportunity to buy used Presonus FP10, but I am not sure is it completely compatible with my MBP - mid 2009, CORE 2 DUO and Mountain Lion and Logic Pro 9???
It is very good interface but a bit outdated, so I am worried! I don't want to spend my money if it won't work on my MAChine!
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I gave up from buying it. As I didn't get any valid information about FP, I stopped thinking about it. I've been looking all over the Internet and came up with Focusrite Saffire Pro 40. Somehow, I find it even better choice, so we will see it tomorrow! I hope it is boxed with Firewire Adapter (400-800), too. It is 777 KM which is about 500 $.
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But it would be a mistake to simply put the old HD in the new computer.
These are the steps:
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Put it in a cheap enclosure
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Boot up new computer.
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BrettGoudy wrote:
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