How to wake an external drive

[Ferdball]

I have a WD 4TB USB3 external drive. I have shared favorites and such. When it goes to sleep, I lose my shortcuts. Is there a way to get them back without rebooting, or to prevent them from disappearing in the first place?

 

[ivoruest]

What is the drive formatting? (OSX Journaled, ExFat, etc..)

 

[varian55zx]

Try going into system preferences , energy saver , and unticking 'put hard disks to sleep when possible'.

See if that helps it.