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New MBP Does Not Recognize Thumb Drive
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Have you used whichever adaptor you use with another thumbdrive? The problem could, possible, be there.
Yeah. I also have several thumb drives that just aren't recognized on a new MBPro, either.
My sticks are different brands, but all are the cheap type with no metal surrounding the connector - only plastic.
Cheap is as cheap does, I suppose.
As they usually work in other systems, I just go shopping for another brand.
Seems like too much hassle to return the stick just because it isn't usable in one computer.
So. Returning your new tech because of a 10 dollar accessory?
Yes I used a Porsche Design External HD and the dongle picked it up.
But can't recognize a basic Memorex plastic thumb drive that literally every student owns?
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Returning my 3400 laptop because it can't recognize a $10 accessory that literally every other laptop reads?
You would be psychologically challenged to NOT feel like returning it. It is infuriating.
Lose the Apple apologetic attitude.
If this is widespread, I despair.
2.5 years Apple was working on this. No-one plugged in a bog-standard thumbdrive?
This seems to be a common problem with the 2016 macbook pros. There are many usb-b and usb-c peripherals that dont work properly with new macs. It will be painful in situations where others bring flash drives to communicate with new macbook.
Well, OK, I don't know who "every student" may be, and I have dozens of flash drives, no Memorex at all.
Of course, I am not a student, other than a "student of life"...
If one stick does not mount, I just try a different brand. I have a small number that don't work on every port that I try. I use something else. I haven't ever thought about returning a laptop when a flash drive is "rejected", but that's just me...
emailnotebox has a good thought - there may be some "adjustment" to the USB type-C ports for some users. So, may not be the simple "plug it in, it will work", until you decide which devices work best in your particular situation.
Of course, I am not a student, other than a "student of life"...
If one stick does not mount, I just try a different brand. I have a small number that don't work on every port that I try. I use something else. I haven't ever thought about returning a laptop when a flash drive is "rejected", but that's just me...
emailnotebox has a good thought - there may be some "adjustment" to the USB type-C ports for some users. So, may not be the simple "plug it in, it will work", until you decide which devices work best in your particular situation.
Are your POS thumb drives USB C ? If not try unplugging the adapter plug the drive into it then plug the dongle in. That's how Apple says to do it on my 2015 rMB, it won't recognize it if I just plug it in. If that vapor locks you then oh well.
Literally plugged into all 4 ports none of them recognized it.
That's a white-labelled mass USB drive: lots of brands use the identical product, relabelled.
It's one of the most common thumbdrives on Earth, especially in Europe and Asia.
If it doesn't work on the MBP... we're in giant comedy of errors territory.
Possibly the dongle used. From what I've seen the advent of forced USB-C will usher in a plethora of problems; even professionals have admitted to being "confused" by the standards and what will work with what.
'USB-C' only denotes the type of physical port; what may run through it—a particular version of Thunderbolt or something else—is a different question altogether.
IF this an issue with the 2016 MBP, then Apple has even bigger problems on its hands.
Wonder if Apple's implementation of usb 3.1 decided to ignore backward compatibility with usb2.x and usb 1.x. Which is part of the standard. Vintage? Obsolete? If so, lots and lots of problems, printers, scanners, hubs, ipods, lots and lots of things.
When you plug it in, go to system information and look under usb to see if the machine can actually see that it is plugged in. also, i would try both orientations of the usb-c connecter. if all of this still does not work i would suggest going to an apple store and showing them the problem
gosh i was hopefully waiting for you to smash a fist through the display in the last 10 seconds.
i feel your disappointment.
i don't want to be that guy but i must say, apple didn't use to be this.
Issues such as this are, at the least, very annoying. This issue, and the keyboard issue reported in another thread should make for a number of product returns.
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