My external hd no longer shows up in fcpx

The 500gb g-drive formatted OS Extended(journaled) holds all my projects in fcpx. It shows up when I first open fcp along with my projects but then disappears. I need to do some edits!!! Please Help!!!!

Check that the root level of the drive doesn't have a folder with a name like Video or Private or DCIM or sonething that makes the app think it's a camera drive.

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Hey all,
Still using an old iMac G4 and it works great... 10.2.8
(and ibook 10.3.9)
plugging in some Maxtor External drives and they don't show up (mount)
I hear them. The light is on.
Checking in disk utility shows that computer senses them and says I can repair permissions (have not tried that yet) but they never appear
on the desktop. These drives are more than 5 years old and haven't been used in about a year - my mistake. use it or lose it apparently.
If anyone can throw a life raft I'll grab it.
thanks,
Al

Dale,
They don't show up in Disk Util.
Nothing to click on.
When I plug them in I get a message saying do I want to initialize or ignore?
I am assuming initialize would erase everything but there is stuff on them so I don't want to erase.
thanks,
Al

External Harddrive no longer showing up

so my old hard drive (external) has been playing up for a while, i daisy chained it to another and to my imac and tried to transfer everything so i can wipe it and reformat it. i transferred most things but now it just won't show up on my mac...
I'm using firewire, and it just won't show up no matter what i do, so even if i've lost everything i can't reformat...
any tips?
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Based on what you have done, I think you have eliminated as causes:
Software (the system or settings)
The iMac's FireWire port (try the other port if you have not already)
The FireWire cable
So the only remaining possibilities are:
The hard drive itself
The external drive enclosure (if the case has two FireWire ports, be sure to try both)
You can test the hard drive apart from the case by removing it from the case and putting it in another case that uses the same type of drive.
Is this an iMac G4? If so, does it have USB 2.0 ports or is it the earlier model with USB 1.1?
Also, is this external hard drive (the one with the problem) the type that has its own power supply, or is it the pocket type that gets power from the FireWire connection?
One more question: If you run Disk Utility with the hard drive connected directly to the iMac's port, does it appear in the sidebar?

External Hard drives not showing up in FCPX library

Hello everyone,
I have FCPX 10.1.3 with Yosemite 10.10.
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Also when I want to import footage from my Canon Camera to my ext HD, FCPX won't let me and only lists Macintosh HD. Weird because FCPX sees the Hard drives as media to import FROM, not TO.
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Raphael

Hi Tom, Thanks for your prompt reply. The ext. HD that I am using already has 2 folders called "Final Cut Events" and "Final Cut Projects" because I use this drive on another Mac.
I upgraded to Yosemite and consequently my version of FCPX. I use FCPX on a daily basis and I don't understand why FCPX 10.1.3 doesn't recognize a ext HD that already has those 2 folders.
Are you recommending that Open an new Library? Or create a new one?

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If other PCs can show this external hard drive, You can try the following steps to clear the write-protected flag to see what's going on:
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type--> diskpart
type--> list volume
type--> select volume #
type--> attributes disk clear readonly
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External Hard Drive no longer showing in Devices

My external hard drive no longer shows up as a device on my MBP. It has worked fine since the day I plugged it in.
The Time Machine is using the HD, and continues to do it's backups, so power and USB connection is not an issue
The HD shows up in Disk Utility (The Time Machine portion AND the partition that I've been using for storage)
I ran a repair on the partition in Disk Utility and it checks out OK
I can access this partition from VMware Fusion, so the windows side of the MBP sees it, and it's operational
Used the HD all day yesterday without issue
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SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and ALL peripherals.
Wait 15 seconds.
Attach the computers power cable.
Wait another 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
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Hello All:
I am working on my sisters' iMac and she has the following problem with iPhoto. Somehow (we have deduced that her husband tried to help "clean-up" the computer), there are 7 months worth of pictures no longer showing in iPhoto. Here is what I have found:
She has her current iPhoto library in the users\username\Pictures\iPhotoLibrary on the local hard drive.
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These libraries are corrupted and you need to start over with one or other of them.
I copied the missing folders back to the local drive and put them in the Originals folder.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things,, deleting them or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
Also, it doesn't work.
We have tried to drag those missing photos directly into iPhoto while it was open and received the error that it could not import because they were already present.
Iphoto will not import files from the current iPhoto Library - a sensible precaution against duplicates.
I think your best bet is to pick the most complete library you have and then import the missing files to it.
Otherwise you're starting over from scratch.
Regards
TD

Iomega external HD no longer mounting, disk utility fails to resolve issue.

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2. Have reset the PRAM and nothing changes.
3. Have started mac in safe mode, still not recognized and same error messages given in disk utility.
4. Other external HD works fine on mac, have not had any software changes/updates since yesterday that I know of that would affect anything.
5. USB and Firewire ports all functioning correctly and the drive is recognized on those under system profiler.
5. I have attached the problem HD to my Windows XP laptop (an old one but still works) and the drive is recognized under device manager but does not show on the desktop (formatted for mac though, so not too surprising).
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Turn off Time Machine, select the 1TB ST310005 Media Drive instead of the Time Machine partition and see if it will Repair.
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IPhone no longer shows up as a hard disk for photo transfer

When I used to plug in my iPhone it would show up in the My Computer page as an external disk. If I clicked through the folders I could easily move pics from my phone to the computer. I had already shut off the auto open feature of the program select.
Not sure why my iPhone no longer shows up. It shows up fine with iTunes

Greetings,
The iPhone won't work as an external disk, never has, by default. It will show up in iTunes, it is supposed to there, but not on your desktop.
Are you thinking of an iPod Touch, maybe? Maybe you have a phone that was tampered with, maybe?
There are third party apps that might do what you are talking about.
Cheers,
M.

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Any idea how to get Aperture to recognize my two existing backup vaults??
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good luck
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External Drive No Longer Visible

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I can access folders and files on the drive if I place a shortcut for that file/folder on the desktop. But even when using this method the drive shows up in the sidebar but is grayed out. (see screen capture below)
This drive is shared via Mountain Lion Server and shows up fine for systems connecting to it via the network.
I recently manually changed the permissions of this volume and propagated them via the server utility (we were having permissions issues with certain folders and files for server users). After that I ran a couple of updates to the computer. I suspect one of these was the culprit, although that could be just a coincidence.
We have a bit for bit copy of this drive (SuperDuper) that is on an internal drive in this computer and it shows up fine.
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Mac Pro 5,1 Quad Core Xeon
OS 10.82
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Update:
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