Hi Christine: A couple of ideas come to mind here and I'll share them for what they may be worth.:) Press Command-shift-c to get to your computer. You may be able to just vo arrow down, or you may need to interact first. But you should find something like "Christine's Hd, Network, and the name of your usb drive." Open that volume like an app, and you should be good to go. If for some reason that doesn't show it, go into disk utility, and look what disks show up. I once had to "mount" an SD card. Which, isn't as weird or complicated as it sounds. You shouldn't have to do anything to the usb drive for it to work, though depending on what kind of files are there, some may not work
HTH Carolyn. On Jun 7, 2011, at 8:27 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > I did check that external disks were checked in Finder preferences to show on > the desktop, but the only untitled folder there is not the disk. I can't > find anything to activate the disk. Is there something else I can try -- is > it possible I have to format it or something? It's brand-new. > On Jun 7, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > >> Hi Christine, >> When you insert the drive an icon will appear on the desktop, which you can >> then open. It might be labeled as Untitled or similar, depending on whether >> the drive has a volume label or not. You open this with command-o, and then >> can copy files to it by, for instance, opening a new Finder window with >> command-n and navigating to where ever you want to copy from. To remove the >> drive, first eject it with command-e on its icon. >> Hope this helps, >> Zack. >> On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: >> >>> Hi, everyone, I'm really confused right now. I placed a new drive into the >>> USB port and expected some sort of dialog box or alert telling me it was >>> available; I want to copy music files onto it. Nothing, and I can't figure >>> out how to locate it, the way I used to on a PC using "my computer". What >>> must I do? (I did try removing it, and I got the alert that it was not >>> removed safely, but it doesn't seem to notice when I insert it.) >>> Christine >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
