Macbook Air with External Hard Drive

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johnfitzuk

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Mar 7, 2012

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• Mar 7, 2012

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I have just bought a Macbook air to go with my Imac 27, iphone 4s and ipad2.
I use an external iomega 2TB hard drive to store my movies and photographs. When the iomega is connected to the iMac it is visible in finder and a yellow icon appears on the screen.

With the Macbook air, the iomega is visible in finder but there is no icon on the screen/desktop. I have tried to find a way of showing it in preferences but to no avail. Can anyone help please?

 

simsaladimbamba

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Nov 28, 2010

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• Mar 7, 2012

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Finder > Preferences > General > Show these items on the desktop: > External disks is checked then?

 

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johnfitzuk

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• Mar 8, 2012

• #3

many thanks.

 

upsguy27

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• Mar 9, 2012

• #4

I'm not sure why Apple chose to uncheck that by default starting with Lion, it just ends up confusing people into thinking their drives aren't working.

 

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iphoneuser2040

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• Mar 9, 2012

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upsguy27 said:

I'm not sure why Apple chose to uncheck that by default starting with Lion, it just ends up confusing people into thinking their drives aren't working.

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Probably to get in line with Windows desktop appearance