USB Mount Issue

Helllo,
I've had to do a reinstall of my mac and have a number of USB devices that have difficulty mounting, Android phones etc as well as my iPhones. The happens since I installed a ZTE mobile broadband dongle which mounts, then unmounts and mounts a different drive.
I've had exactly the same problem before with something hiding a mounted drive, and somehow found the answer on Google to delete a couple of plist files, but for the life of me I cannot remember what plist files I need to delete. This worked perfectly before.
Anyone able to point in the right direction?

Found it, just for reference if you have any android phones or dongles, I had to delete the ZTEUSBMassStorageFilter.ktext from my Extensions folder and restart the computer, once I did that, everything worked fine. No idea how I found it, but hopefully if it's here, it'll help everyone out if they google it.

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