Aloha everyone,
I'm running Lion on my iMac and my MacBook Pro (see my sig for details) and have few to very little issues as such, at least until today. I have a 2TB external drive (WD) that I use to host my iTunes and iPhoto libraries, as well as other ancillary files I may need at work (I do a lot of Photoshop, unofficially, for my job).
This morning, like normal I downloaded podcasts for my drive into work, synced my iPhone, and checked a couple of files on my external via the finder. Once I got into work and plugged everything in, I saw the icon for my external on the desktop, but when I tried to use the finder, nothing showed up under Devices, which is where it normally shows up. Interestingly enough, I get the same behavior when I insert my USB thumb drive (both devices attach via USB). I can navigate to the drives using Cmd-up arrow, but I fail to understand why they won't both show up as normal in finder on my MacBook Pro.
I ran Disk Utility to verify the external drive and everything there checked out OK. When I check the system, everything seems to be OK, with the exception that they no longer show up in finder. The first thing I did was to verify that the checkbox to display external drives was still checked, which it is. Does anyone have any idea of where else I can try troubleshooting this particular issue? I really don't think it's a Lion issue, but as that is what I'm using to drive the computer, I thought to put this in the Lion forum. I'm not even sure it's a USB problem, even though only the USB-connected external drives are the ones not showing up in finder. I'm really kind of stumped on this one and would appreciate any and all assistance in resolving this issue.
I'm running Lion on my iMac and my MacBook Pro (see my sig for details) and have few to very little issues as such, at least until today. I have a 2TB external drive (WD) that I use to host my iTunes and iPhoto libraries, as well as other ancillary files I may need at work (I do a lot of Photoshop, unofficially, for my job).
This morning, like normal I downloaded podcasts for my drive into work, synced my iPhone, and checked a couple of files on my external via the finder. Once I got into work and plugged everything in, I saw the icon for my external on the desktop, but when I tried to use the finder, nothing showed up under Devices, which is where it normally shows up. Interestingly enough, I get the same behavior when I insert my USB thumb drive (both devices attach via USB). I can navigate to the drives using Cmd-up arrow, but I fail to understand why they won't both show up as normal in finder on my MacBook Pro.
I ran Disk Utility to verify the external drive and everything there checked out OK. When I check the system, everything seems to be OK, with the exception that they no longer show up in finder. The first thing I did was to verify that the checkbox to display external drives was still checked, which it is. Does anyone have any idea of where else I can try troubleshooting this particular issue? I really don't think it's a Lion issue, but as that is what I'm using to drive the computer, I thought to put this in the Lion forum. I'm not even sure it's a USB problem, even though only the USB-connected external drives are the ones not showing up in finder. I'm really kind of stumped on this one and would appreciate any and all assistance in resolving this issue.
