Hi Josh,
Welcome to the list. In additions to John's hint about editing your Finder
preferences to show these external drives on the Desktop, you can always view
all the drives that are connected to your computer by using the shortcut to
display your computer setup, cmd-shift-c. From Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver page on
shortcuts, here are the relevant ones for Finder browsing use and to use in
save and open dialog windows:
• cmd-shift-a - applications: Brings focus to the applications folder.
• cmd-shift-h - Home: Brings focus to the user's Home directory.
• cmd-shift-d - Desktop: Brings focus to the desktop.
• cmd-shift-u - Utilities folder: Brings focus to the Utilities folder.
• cmd-shift-i - idisk: Brings focus to the user's iDisk. [note: does
not work for the newer OS or for older versions of the OS after June 30, 2012]
• cmd-shift-c - Computer: Brings focus to the users computer so that
attached drives and removable media can be easily accessed.
• cmd-shift-g - Go to folder: this is especially useful for accessing
areas that are normally invisible to the GUI.
I'd add:
• cmd-shift-o - Documents: Brings focus to the Documents folder.
I think Tim's web page may be disappearing with the end of Mobile Me service
and the migration to iCloud after June 30, but in the meantime you might want
to look over the content:
http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/shortcuts.html
The cmd-shift-g "Go to folder" shortcut is particularly useful if you want to
move directly to a folder on any connected drive. For example, if I want to
copy files to or from a specific folder of a flash drive, and I know the name
under which the flash drive gets mounted, which might be named:
/Volumes/Crucial/Special
in the case of my Crucial memory stick, where I created a folder named
"Special" for the contents, then I can use the cmd-shift-g shortcut and then
type the path "/Volumes/Crucial/Special" (without the quotation marks) into the
dialog text box and press enter to go to that location. Or if you've already
selected your flash drive from your desktop or from the Finder view shown in
cmd-shift-c, you can either use cmd-shift-g and type "Special" into the dialog
text box, or you can navigate through the Finder tree view menu structure to
the folder you want. The cmd-shift-g shortcut is most useful when you have a
particular folder you want to get to -- often many levels deep -- and you know
the exact pathname.
Take a look at Tim's other entries for VoiceOver tips and tricks, and a few of
his notes for specific applications under Snow Leopard. Even though this is
the older operating system, most of the content applies. The nice thing about
Tim's page is that similar commands are grouped together, and he points out the
most useful features/applications. This material is also in the VoiceOver
Getting Started guide that you can access with VO-H, but it's laid out from a
practical user's perspective.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:57 AM, John Panarese wrote:
> It should show up on the desktop when you plug it in. If not, when in
> Finder, type a command-comma to open Finder Preferences. There should be a
> series of checkboxes to show specific items on the desktop. Be sure that
> external drives is checked.
>
>
> On Jun 25, 2012, at 2:49 PM, josh gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon:
>> I'm Josh, and I just joined this list today. I have a question,
>> since this is dealing with flash drives and mac and all.
>> I just got a macbook pro last Monday, and I love it!!! So, how can I
>> find my flash drive in finder? In windows I just typed g and then a
>> colon and it popped up. This doesn't seem to work in lion. Thoughts?
>> And Arthur, thanks for that command on ejecting. I got that same
>> error when I just pulled it out.
>> Thanks!
>> Josh
>>
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