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External hard drives don't show up in El Capitan: UNRESOLVED
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Is Finder > Preferences > General > Show Items on the Desktop > External disks checked?
If it IS then check that the drive is being mounted. In the terminal:
or
(And look for "Mounted Yes" under your volume
If its NOT listed there then check it is being recognised. In the terminal:
Is Finder > Preferences > General > Show Items on the Desktop > External disks checked?
If it IS then check that the drive is being mounted. In the terminal:
Code:
ls /Volumes/or
Code:
diskutil info -allIf its NOT listed there then check it is being recognised. In the terminal:
Code:
diskutil list
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from the release notes:
Known Issues
Known Issues
- USB storage devices, including internal SD card readers, may become unavailable after system sleep and require either re-plug or restart to recover.
- USB input devices may become non-functional on some Macs after several days.
- USB 1.0, 1.1 and older 2.0 devices may not function.
Aaaannnd a simple Restart has fixed the issue, yay! Thanks SICKB0Y and SG-!
I have mine set that way on purpose. You shouldn't have needed a reboot for it to take effect though.
My external drives and usb things are not showing up ( only my Time Machine hdd and iPhone and iPad)
I did those steps and here what it shows on my not visible samsung 500gb
what can I do?
thanks
Hmmm. I really don't know then. USB devices are known to be problematic in El Capitan though. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.. maybe someone else might be able to chime in?
I have a MOTU Timepiece AV. The audio/Midi setup does not recognize the Timepiece so that is the USB issue mention in there release notes. Hope the next release takes care of the USB ports.
My USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 2TB hard drives (Western Digital / Silicon Power) are capricious too. Sometimes they are not detected, sometimes they drop, ... Whatever. Apple deeply modified the USB drivers, there're many weird things in system logs. Wait and see.
If your external hard drive is encrypted, you may have to use Disk Utility & unlock it - it will then be mounted. MacOS 10.11 does not always prompt me to do so.
If your external hard drive is encrypted, you may have to use Disk Utility & unlock it - it will then be mounted. MacOS 10.11 does not always prompt me to do so.
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I have three disks. One is formatted with NTFS, and encrypted using bitlocker. Thus mac would never recognise it.
The other one is formatted with hfs+, and part of this disk have been reserved for encrypted time machine backup. Mac can recognise it with no issue, and windows can access not encrypted partition.
The third one is formatted with NTFS. No bitlocker, and cannot be encrypted with mac.
All three disks use normally, under either mac or Windows.
The other one is formatted with hfs+, and part of this disk have been reserved for encrypted time machine backup. Mac can recognise it with no issue, and windows can access not encrypted partition.
The third one is formatted with NTFS. No bitlocker, and cannot be encrypted with mac.
All three disks use normally, under either mac or Windows.
I am having the same issue as you guys. I have a seagate USB3 external and no matter what I do, I can't get it to show up so that I can unlock it. :/
Yeah I have a Seagate usb3 and a Samsung usb2
only the one with time machine enabled is the one that works
Please read my post above (#13). As I said, you may need to unlock it manually using the Disk Utility.
i would guess some sort of USB subsystem re-write to handle future usb-c functionality along with optimizations for performance with the amount of data that will be going through USB stuff in the future.
Hey I just updated to DP 3 and all my external drives are working perfectly ;D wish the same for you all.
I have a firewire drive that is attached to the thunderbolt adapter that unmount/remount itself - works fine on an non-updated machine.