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Computer won't recognize flash drive
- Thread starter jimijazz
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I assume you've gone into Disk Utility and formatted it in the Fat 32 file format so Mac can recognise it.
Also take a look at your Finder preferences, make sure it wasn't toggled at some point not to show connected hard drives.
Yeah, it shows up in DU as well.
It's odd, the checkbox for showing external disks in Finder's sidebar was blue, but instead of a check it had a dash. I'm guessing that meant it was set to only display certain drives, which is odd, because I never changed the setting and, like I said, I've used this drive on this computer. Anyway, I changed it back and now there's no problem. Perhaps I inadvertently changed the setting... or my computer is becoming self-aware and is messing with me.
Hm.
Well, thanks, guys!
It's odd, the checkbox for showing external disks in Finder's sidebar was blue, but instead of a check it had a dash. I'm guessing that meant it was set to only display certain drives, which is odd, because I never changed the setting and, like I said, I've used this drive on this computer. Anyway, I changed it back and now there's no problem. Perhaps I inadvertently changed the setting... or my computer is becoming self-aware and is messing with me.
Hm.
Well, thanks, guys!