I am having trouble with my Macbook, running 10.6.2
Disks I put in the Superdrive, external hard drives, or anything in the USB or Firewire (thumbdrive, etc) -- nothing shows up on the desktop. All are visible in Disk Utility. USB thumbdrives and external hard drives are visible in the sidebar in Finder, but disks are not (only disk utility).
Because of this I can't burn a disk because the disk is not being recognized. In Disk Utility, the external hard drives appear mounted and can be opened in Finder, but why aren't they appearing on my desktop (they used to)?
This all just happened out of nowhere a couple days ago. I tried searching the forums but didn't come up with the same problem. Other people seem to have had problems with their external drives. This seems to be more of a problem with my Macbook. I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks
----------------------EDIT-------------------------
I powered down and removed the battery, powered back up a few minutes later (something I read in an old forum in reference to a G4). This seemed to solve the disk drive problem, it shows up now on the desktop, at least for now.
And I found the setting in the General tab in Sidebar settings which had somehow gotten de-selected. External drives now also showing up on desktop.
Disks I put in the Superdrive, external hard drives, or anything in the USB or Firewire (thumbdrive, etc) -- nothing shows up on the desktop. All are visible in Disk Utility. USB thumbdrives and external hard drives are visible in the sidebar in Finder, but disks are not (only disk utility).
Because of this I can't burn a disk because the disk is not being recognized. In Disk Utility, the external hard drives appear mounted and can be opened in Finder, but why aren't they appearing on my desktop (they used to)?
This all just happened out of nowhere a couple days ago. I tried searching the forums but didn't come up with the same problem. Other people seem to have had problems with their external drives. This seems to be more of a problem with my Macbook. I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks
----------------------EDIT-------------------------
I powered down and removed the battery, powered back up a few minutes later (something I read in an old forum in reference to a G4). This seemed to solve the disk drive problem, it shows up now on the desktop, at least for now.
And I found the setting in the General tab in Sidebar settings which had somehow gotten de-selected. External drives now also showing up on desktop.