hi petrus in the general tab of the finder when using command and comma you’ll hear show these items on the desk top and one of them is external disks as a check box along with connected servers and hard disks, check the external disks and you should be able to hear the name of whatever you connected.
> On 21 Jun 2019, at 11:38 am, Petrus Tuerlings <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Aleeha, > Sorry, but I tried that. I plugged in the memory stick and navigated to the > finder and couldn’t find the drive, but it still told me to eject it > correctly. But but when I pressed command E it said New selection defined, > or something like that. I’m guessing that was because I didn’t have the drive > selected. > I do have a friend visiting on Sunday and he also uses a Mac so I’ll wait > till he is here. > Thanks again. > >> On 21/06/2019, at 1:27 PM, Aleeha Dudley <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> When you plug a drive in of any kind, it should show up on your desktop. If >> you navigate to the finder, the drive will be there. It is good computer >> management practice to always safely eject a drive when you are finished >> with it. To do so, find the drive in finder and press Command E. >> Hope that helps. >> Aleeha >> >>> On Jun 20, 2019, at 9:20 PM, Petrus Tuerlings <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I have a silly question again. I have a few old flash drives or memory >>> sticks, what ever you want to call them? How do I check what is on them >>> or even if my Mac will read the contents? I suspect there is some Mp3 files >>> and audio books on them, but it has been so long I can’t remember. I used >>> to use them with my old windows computer. I plugged one in and it said my >>> Mac could not read it and gave me an option to eject it. But the next one I >>> tried nothing happened, I was at least expecting a dialog box giving me >>> some instructions. But when I pulled it out it told me that I didn’t eject >>> it correctly. But it didn’t tell me how to do that. >>> I do have an old external hard drive as well which has lots of MP3 audio >>> books on it, but I didn’t want to plug that in until I had some idea of >>> what I was doing. >>> Hoping for any advice, >>> Petrus >>> Sent from Petrus' MacBook >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. 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