My external hard drive has disappeared

My external hard drive has disappeared from the 'open file' window in photoshop CS6. It's working fine and appears in other applications such as bridge and lightroom. How do I get it back? I'm running a Mac on OS X.

You may have accidentally dragged the drive out of the Devices list in the sidebar.
In a Finder window with visible sidebar, do Shift+Cmd+G to get the Go To Folder dialog. Enter
/volumes
then click OK.
You'll see all your mounted volumes in the Finder window. Drag the required one to the Devices list in the sidebar.

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Hey guys,
I know this question comes up a lot so I'm suprised to say I've failed to find any fixes on other threads. Many people having the same issue say that the drive shows up temporarily in the events and project source windows but then disapear, this is not the case for me it just doesn't show up at all. I've put 90% of my fcp projects and events onto one external hard drive which is working fine with everything but fcp, it even recognises it if i want to import from the drive. It has been working fine up until now which is weird as I've not changed anything on it recently, the only thing I've changed is I used a client's drive to do the latest edit, which worked fine!
Someone must have found a solution to this problem by now, it's causing me a lot of trouble as I've got deadlines to meet and I'm being put out by what seems to be a ridiculous little bug, surely apple would have got onto a fix for this by now?? In the mean time all and any suggestions welcome!

llyrhughes wrote:
Hey guys,
I know this question comes up a lot so I'm suprised to say I've failed to find any fixes on other threads. Many people having the same issue say that the drive shows up temporarily in the events and project source windows but then disapear, this is not the case for me it just doesn't show up at all. I've put 90% of my fcp projects and events onto one external hard drive which is working fine with everything but fcp, it even recognises it if i want to import from the drive. It has been working fine up until now which is weird as I've not changed anything on it recently, the only thing I've changed is I used a client's drive to do the latest edit, which worked fine!
Someone must have found a solution to this problem by now, it's causing me a lot of trouble as I've got deadlines to meet and I'm being put out by what seems to be a ridiculous little bug, surely apple would have got onto a fix for this by now?? In the mean time all and any suggestions welcome!
Have you used it successfully with FCP X before? What content has changed in the drive?
I am assuming you checked all the usual things, but still it is worth taking a look again:
1) Is it formatted as Mac OS extended?
2) Did you add any folder titled something that may be thought of as a camera (folders like "AVCHD", "Private", "DCIM", "Video", ....)
3) Are the folders called exactly "Final Cut Events" and "Final Cut Projects" and located at the ROOT of the drive?
It seems like you know all this, but still there may have been something you missed.

External Hard Drive has "Disappeared"

I have a Maxtor One Touch II External drive conected through a Firewire 800 cable which I use for Time Machine. The drive got switched off a couple of weeks ago, but when I switched it back on it would not mount. The drive sounds like it is running normally.
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Thought you could use this info about getting FireWire to work! (I'm assuming the One Touch is FireWire; some of this works for USB too)
First, you should always Repair Permissions in Disk Utility before and after any update; I would do that now. If you installed your update with FireWire plugged in, your Mac may not recognize it anymore.
Try resetting your FireWire ports by disconnecting all FW devices, shut down your Mac and unplug it from AC power (wall socket) for 30 minutes. plug it back in and try FW.
If that did'nt work, download the combo update from this site (yours may be corrupt), not Software Update, disconnect all firewire + USB devices except keyboard + mouse, Repair Permissions, re-install update, Repair Permissions again + try. Yours is the 10.3.9 Combo update. Others reading, download the Combo that applies to your system.
If that still did'nt get it Zap the PRAM. While restarting Mac hold down the following key combo Command-Option-P-R. Keep holding those keys down till you hear the second start-up chime, then release.
For those of you with Macs that are not PowerBooks or iBooks, a bad internal battery can cause FireWire to not be recognized, so make sure it's good!
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Cheers!
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Hi,
I have completed a back up of my Elements12 catalog to a external hard drive but when I try to view them they have been saved in all sorts of different ways.Some of them are GOM media files which will not open at all.
Some say SYNCDB or CACHE or PREF files which tell me I need an app to open,others are XML Documents which just show lists of data.The list goes on...
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ianm5737231 a écrit:
Hi,
I have completed a back up of my Elements12 catalog to a external hard drive but when I try to view them they have been saved in all sorts of different ways.Some of them are GOM media files which will not open at all.
Some say SYNCDB or CACHE or PREF files which tell me I need an app to open,others are XML Documents which just show lists of data.The list goes on...
Everything opened OK in the Elements program but how can I find out whether or not it has backed everything up if I cannot open or access these files that Elements has copied to my hard drive?
So, the simple answer is that you are expected to see the message at the end of the process stating that the backup has been successful.
If you are skeptical, I am afraid the only 100% way is to do a restore and see if everything is ok.
One thing I always do (and recommend) is to see if you can find a file named 'backup.tly'. It's the last created and contains everything necessary to restore your catalog and your picture files, even if you choose to restore on another location.
I am completely lost.Before I had elements I just copied my photo and video folder to my ext hard drive and everything worked,no messages saying this file needs an app or that video file cannot be opened!
You can have a copy of your pictures folders, but that's not enough. You should also have a copy of your catalog folders (location : menu Help/system info). And if you restore to another computer, that's not enough either : all your files will be shown as disconnected... good luck with the reconnection process. Believe me, use the organizer backup/restore system, at least when you want to migrate to another computer, drive or OS!
Since we are never too sure about backups, a good solution is to use your prefered copy or sync system regularly AND to do full organizer backups periodically or when you want to upgrade.

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