My Imac is not reconizing my Flash Drive

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Wrong forum; we don't do Elements here.
You want: Photoshop Elements

I have bought a photoshop elements and have installed it on my MacBookPro. I have just bought an iMac and what to install on this computer as well. The iMac does not have a disc drive. I have copied the file onto a remote hard drive and tried to install b

I have bought a photoshop elements and have installed it on my MacBookPro. I have just bought an iMac and what to install on this computer as well. The iMac does not have a disc drive. I have copied the file onto a remote hard drive and tried to install but it thinks I have a pirate copy. What can I do?

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My Imac with OS 10.9.1 Maverick will not accept a flash drive

When I put in a flash drive even a brand new one I get a message that I did not eject it properly. This message happens when the drive is displayed on the desk top and the then the desk top display disappears. It then cycles back to the drive and no drive with the message appearing even after I close it.

Hello Richlor,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with your USB device. I found an article with steps you can take when an external device is not being recognized.
I recommend following the steps in the section titled "Top troubleshooting tips" in the following article:
USB and FireWire Quick Assist
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1151
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

Imac will not see my hard drive on start up, wants to start from network start up disk that does not exist. How to get rid of it? So there is just one choice / my hard drive.

I have a Intel duo Imac. Everything has been running relatively smoothly for a few years now. All of a sudden my computer will not start. I get the flashing folder with a question mark.
When I go to Start up disk in my system perfernces while the computer is on. I see 2 possible choices. One is my hard drive with the operating system shown. The other is a non-existant Network Start up disk with a question mark in it ( looks like a hard drive with a question mark and it say's its a "network start up disk).
All I think I want to do is get rid of the Network startup with the question mark. I can not find anywhere how one can just remove an old or non existant start up disk without reformatting.
I believe this came from a clients hard drive who had a network system on it. We no longer have that drive. It no longer exists. But a latent icon shows up in start up disk.
When I go to change the start up disk. I can change it to either the hard drive or the network with the question mark. But when I select my hard drive and then got to restart the computer. I get the flashing folder with a question mark on start up. I have also seen the flashing globe a couple times.
When I attempt to run disk utility from may install disk ( holding down "C" on start-up ). Disk utility does not see my hard drive. Just the Apple install disk with the disk utility on it.
What can I do to remedy this short of re-installing? Will a program like Disk Warrior or Tech Tool help?

Thank you. That's what I thought will need to happen.
One more question. I tried using the Apple install disk that came with the computer. It's an OS 10.5.6 disk. It does not see my 10.6.8 system internal hard drive to repair. All it see's is itself 10.5.6 disk. Do you think I can use a 10.8+ disk utillity since that is a higher system it will see the 10.6.8. Where the 10.5.6 does not?
I don't want to turn the computer off for fear I'll get the question mark again. P-Ram got me going last time but for how long I don't know? It would be nice to be able to turn the computer off for the night and startup as usual to give it a rest and try to reset itself.
Thanks for your help, I know I will eventually need to re-install. But I am in the middle of a project with tight deadlines and all I can do right now is back-up. Trying to migrate to another computer temporarily to finish the job. That's a lot of extra work in the short time also.
Just trying to put a band-aid on it for another couple weeks.

My iMac won't read my flash drive

My iMac 27-inch, mid 2011, (OS X version 10.7.4) won't read my flash drives. I don't believe it is a formatting issue of the USB flash drive because the flash drives are easily read on my MacBook Air, 11-inch, late 2010 (OS X version 10.7.4). The drive occasionally will appear on the iMac, but not always, and I can't seem to figure out when it does and when it doesn't. When I use an external hard drive, it appears in the finder. Just, not the flash drives. So, I continually have to load from the flash drive to the Air and then connect to the iMac. It's kind of ridiculous. Does anyone have an idea why I can't read the flash drive on the iMac?

Could be a USB port glitch/problem - try these two troubleshooting methods:
PRAM reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
post back if it still doesn't work.

Does it make sense to configure an iMac with a 256MB internal flash drive and rely on an external Thunderbolt HD for storage?

I am considering buying a 27" iMac with the i7 processor, 16GB RAM (I can add another 16GB without throwing out any RAM that came with the machine), and the faster graphics card with 4GB video memory. I am wondering whether I should get the 3TB Fusion Drive (of which only 128GB is flash drive), or whether I should get a 256GB internal flash drive and rely on a Thunderbolt external HD for storage.
For reference, my current Applications folder is less than 100GB, my Library folder is less than 15GB, and my Users folder is almost 400GB. However, almost 300GB of my Users folder are two subfolders: Movies and Pictures. It seems that I don't need to store movies and pictures in the Users folder, and I don't, for the most part. Anything else need to be in the iMac's "home HD"?
I know Apple offers 500GB and 1T flash drives as well, but they are too expensive.
Having the HD outside the iMac would have the benefit of not having to send in the entire computer in case the HD went down.
Would I have a performance penalty having the HD external, even with Thunderbolt?

While I generally agree with what Mr. Kaufmann has already said, if you are doing video editing on your Mac, a 256GB system drive is pretty thin and could be a source of future frustration, even trouble. Your system needs disk space (aka virtual memory) to operate in addition to whatever you have stored on the system HD. Various applications also require temporary storage on the system HD ... especially resource-intensive apps like video, photo, audio (media) apps. You already appear have ~115GB between the system, applications & user library. That's nearly half of a 256GB drive ... not much left for working storage.
While editing video, especially anything highdef, you can easily need 50-100GB or more for operation. And while Final Cut Pro X allows you to specify a different hard drive for its render & cache files, etc., if you don't specify an alternate location it defaults to your system HD for that storage. Even so, FCPX and similar apps still need working space on your system HD. I suggest that 500GB is the bare minimum for a system HD on a Mac used for video editing, 1TB would be better.
'Course, if by movies you only meant viewing movies then this is a totally moot point.

Itunes Music Not Recovered From Flash Drive

I backed up my itunes library on a flash drive. My new computer will not play Apple purchases. The error messages are "Computer not authorized", even though it has been, or "Original file could not be found" and the file will not come up when I hit the "locate" button. The Apple store has no record of former ID's under my e-mail address, and only has one purchase on record.
I have not had any problems with Amazon purchases.

Hello Limnos,
Thanks again for all your help.
Since my initial response I've looked in a little more depth at the track names.
All my files are stored and played at CD quality from the original CD rather than MP3.
It appears that track names are extracted from the Library and look a little different from those that appear in the iTunes playlist.
I see now that the first element of the track name is the track number from the original CD. So if my playlist is made up of 3 CDs then all the track 01s get stored first and played first, followed by track 02s etc.
I do not think it will take a great deal of effort to renumber the tracks from 01 to xty in what ever order I want them played since I usually play complete albums all the way through.
Thanks again, Steve.
BTW. Based on this I went out today and bought an 8Gb flash drive that I shall use to take our music with us on holiday. Saves a great weight in CDs! (and lets us get under new airline weight restrictions)

ITunes does not recognise USB Flash Drive

Hi everyone,
I am repeating this request in the hopes that the daytime crowd will have someone who can help!
I plug a usb flashdrive into my MacBook with iTunes active.
It comes up on desktop.
It does not appear as device in iTunes.
I can move files (albums) to the device from music menu under Go.
I cannot save my playlists from iTunes.
How do I get iTunes to recognise the usb drive.
Thanks, Steve.

Hello Limnos,
Thanks again for all your help.
Since my initial response I've looked in a little more depth at the track names.
All my files are stored and played at CD quality from the original CD rather than MP3.
It appears that track names are extracted from the Library and look a little different from those that appear in the iTunes playlist.
I see now that the first element of the track name is the track number from the original CD. So if my playlist is made up of 3 CDs then all the track 01s get stored first and played first, followed by track 02s etc.
I do not think it will take a great deal of effort to renumber the tracks from 01 to xty in what ever order I want them played since I usually play complete albums all the way through.
Thanks again, Steve.
BTW. Based on this I went out today and bought an 8Gb flash drive that I shall use to take our music with us on holiday. Saves a great weight in CDs! (and lets us get under new airline weight restrictions)

Can NOT rechange my Flash Drive icon?

I changed my flash disk icon last night for a try but in the second i did not.
The icon comes broken. I tried to format and i download different icons on the internet. But anyway it comes broken. Can you help me?

Hello,
Plug in the flash drive so it mounts on the desktop, then follow the following;
Click the volume, application, folder, or file whose icon you want to paste onto another item.
From the File menu, choose Get Info or press Command-I to open the Get Info window.
Click the icon in the upper-left corner of the Get Info window to select it.
From the Edit menu, choose Copy or press Command-C.
Select the volume, application, folder, or file whose icon you want to replace.
From the File menu, choose Get Info or press Command-I.
Click the icon in the upper-left corner.
From the Edit menu, choose Paste or press Command-V to replace the icon.

My iMac does not recognize external hard drive

My iMac does not recognize my external hard drive. Disk utility recognizes it and a test of the hard drive does not review any error. I use the hard drive as a back up for the time machine. This problem comes and goes. It comes when I turn off and turn on the computer, with the hard drive attached.
Please help.
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can be this reasons
01 , you have problem with connection ? check the port if you can find any problems physically .
02. if not try to change the cable and with connection ,
03. may be its good idea to check the hard drive with another mac ?(if you have )
Did you note any diference of sound from Hard Drive ? listen to it that carefully to note some unusual sound comes when the hard drive works.
check this link this might usefull: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjgOSxKy-FQ

IMac Dropping Firewire Disks & USB Flash Drive

I have a 3TB 800mb WD Firewire Disk daisy chained to a 1TB 800mb WD Firewire Disk on my iMac along with a 3.95GB USB Flash Drive.
All my stuff is kept on these disks so the iMac runs light.
After awakening from sleep, I often find that one of the Firewire Disks or the USB Flash Drive has gone AWOL and it's a real pain to get the Firewire Disk working again. The USB Flash Drive requiring to be plugged in again.
Removing the Firewire Disks power lead sometimes fixes it, sometimes an iMac restart does the trick.
The problem with restarting the IMac is the length of time it takes in restarting. The USB drive's default appears to be to go AWOL every time the iMac restarts.
Does anyone know of a fix to cure this issue of Disks going AWOL and the abnormal time it takes to restart the iMac?
Regards to all,
iPentax
2.93 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Memory OS X 10.8.2

Hi Mike,
Tried all that, doesn't solve the issue.
Incidentally, I have Arcana Startuo Sound installed, this mutes the AWFULL Apple Diagnostic Startup Sound that some Apple Idiot devised.
Surely an on-screen message after startup, warning that something is amiss would be the sensible alternative?
Apple have more than their fair share of the number of idiots they employ, witness the Wireless Keyboard, a Keyboard without Page up/down keys and Calculator keys? I admit the Wireless Keyboard does comes in useful for iPad!
The problem with resetting the Pram is that it trashes Arcana, then I have to Restore OS X or reformat and install Snow Leopard>Mountain Lion etc.
Arcana isn't available for Mountain Lion, my Arcana copy only works with Mountain Lion through a legacy process.
Regards,
iPentax

IMac intermittent recognition of usb flash drives

Some days it works and most of the time it doesn't. I have the latest upgrades for Yosemite.

It seems unlikely to be your iMac given that all the ports are working, but you could try the Apple Hardware Test.
You could also try reformatting the flash drives. http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/

IMac doesn't "see" USB Flash drive on initial insertion

Hi,
I have a new iMac running Mavericks with a powered SIIG external USB hub. (Rear USB port design on iMac is inconvenient).
Problem: When I insert a NTFS-formatted USB Flash drive into the hub, the light blinks as expected, but the iMac doesn't "see" it and it doesn't show up in "Devices".
When I remove and re-insert the USB drive, the iMac then "sees" it just fine and it shows up in "Devices"
Seeing this consistently.
Any ideas what might be happening here?
I also have Paragon NTFS installed to enable read/write to external NTFS drives.
Thanks.

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Imac G5 not reconizing Leopard install, Need help diagnosing.

Hello, my names Jarid and my problem is the following;
*_Using Now_*
I am currently on my macbook pro 10.6.5 snow leopard OS.
Background
I got an Imac for Christmas from my fathers Friend, the friend recently moved to china and left it behind.
this G5 (2 gigs of ram, 1.8 ghz processor) had tiger installed on it but while i have switched to mac about 6 months ago, I have a strong background in windows and learning as i go on mac. I wanted to install leopard on this G5 because my Macbook was leopard when i received it so i wanted to upgrade for familiarity.
One strange thing right before i tried to install was i tried to install new applications and they would just open up really quick on the dock then disappear and not work. Firefox worked, as well as itunes ect but they were already installed..(I think i may have DL the wrong OS support?? i do not know)
While installing a new program it actually started to run; i tried to DL a tiger version of an app to see if i might have been using the wrong instal(this is where i thought i was installing the wrong OS app maybe?).
The comp sort of froze, so i restarted holding down the power and got the purple folder with the blinking '?'. I figured i could just install leopard and fix what appeared to be "corrupt system/32 boot"(windows) I Bought Leopard @ best buy 10.5 and put the disk in and pressed "c".
Problem
It started fine until i had to pick a disc to choose from, there was no drive. I opened disk utility and I THINK it had 1 partition listed and the disk drive. I then proceeded to "erase" the drive considering it was already missing files anyways. I remember something though like I created "journalism" or something and the drive now showed in the "where do you want to install". I chose the only drive (hard drive 250g). I watched it for 40 minutes and then went and UG my leopard to snow leopard. When I finished, I figured my G5 would be done however the screen did not light when I used the mouse or keyboard. I shut it off by holding the power button. now I still get the purple folder with the '?' mark. When i use the disc to boot I cant see the drive again but this time all that is in the disk utility is a pic of a cd (guessing my boot disc) even though i saw the HD there 2 hours ago...
*_Things I Have Tried_*
1. I tried using terminal in the start up with the disc to find the drive, but it listed disc 0 1 2 3 with like 500 mb, I think 2 "X" amount of kb, lastly like one 7 GB and that was it no big HD listed?
2. I tried Holding "option" and try finding the drive but nothing showed up, I took the installation disc out at this point.
_*+Additional info+*_
I know Windows Xp extremely well but not mac too much and **everything I've done was done from what I've been reading offline**. Any help would be greatly appreciated. +I am still new to mac+ so if it is not windows-type ideology please explain A little more in depth for me please, thank you.

You might try resetting the SMU:
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Unplug the computer's power cord.
3. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
4. Release the power button.
5. Attach the computers power cable.
6. Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Or reseting the PRAM.
You can check the drive using Apple Hardware Test, which should be on one of your install discs, hold down the D when booting to it.
Did you wipe the drive when you were running from the install disc?
If the install disc works, try using Disk Utility to repair your drive, but it sounds as if the hard drive has failed.
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.
Let us know how you make out,

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