I can think of two possibilities: 1. The OS has decided to verify the drive before providing access to it. This might especially be the case if you unplugged the drive before it was completely ejected the last time it was used. I believe a system dialog does appear saying that this is occurring.
2. The external drive is encrypted and the password for the drive is not in your keychain. So somewhere there is a prompt asking for the drive password. Good Luck, Jonathan Cohn > On Jan 26, 2018, at 8:20 PM, Shannon Dyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, all. > > I have a mid 2015 MacBook Pro that seems to be having trouble seeing external > drives. When I plug a drive into either of the USB ports, it tells me the > desktop which is where drives usually appear is empty. This doesn’t happen > all the time, but it does seem to be happening more often. Might anyone know > why this could be happening and what I could do to fix it? > > Shannon > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
