USB devices don't appear in Sidebar or Finder but do appear on Desktop

After upgrading to Leopard from 10.3, I notice that when I plug a flash drive into the keyboard USB port of my 1.8 GHz iMac G5 the drive appears on the desktop, but not in the Finder or Sidebar. I believe this problem is also affecting PhoneValet, which no longer finds the USB telephone interface. Any ideas?

I am not sure why it is acting that way in the keyboard USB port. If you plug it into a system USB port, it will show up in the Sidebar on Finder.

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New to these forums.
I am travelling atm. Just received a new white iphone 3gs 16gb 6 weeks ago as a replacement on insurance from uk.
No previous problems. Yesterday phone suddenly powered off.
completely dead with around 30% baterry charge remaining.
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am travelling down through africa for the next 4 months so cannot visit store or post to apple or receive replacemant until return to uk in april.
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moved to iphone from ipod 2 click wheel as that was extremely unreliable and crashed constantly.
have had 2 ipods, 1 iphone 3G and this 3Gs. only 3G worked without problems for a year. All other items failed repeatedly within weeks or months.
are apple going to produce a reliable product one day? functionality is great, reliability is less than 3rd rate.
can anyone help as i face 4 months overlanding with no music, translator apps or phone!!!!
desperation creeping in.
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Hello iphonephan,
Try following the steps in these articles (try them in the order listed below):
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1495
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1926
Another thing you can try is to import the pictures when that prompt comes up and then delete the pictures on the iPhone (you can also email them to yourself from the iPhone before deleting them). Once the camera roll is empty on the iPhone try connecting to the computer to test.
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i also have seen some USB problems with the new MacBook and just checked a bit deeper.
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