Try trashing user/library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist, log in log out, try to mount a disk...jf
On May 11, 2006, at 5:03 AM, R. D. Preston wrote: > Hi Beth, > > I've been watching with interest (no answers to offer) to see how > this problem got resolved. Since it's been a week, and haven't > seen any on-list responses, I'm writing to ask, "How did you fix > that problem?" : ) > > Regards, > Russ Preston > > > On May 3, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Beth Phillips wrote: > >> This started out with CDs and DVDs and I thought I had a bad CD >> Drive as I >> had had problems with CDs burning too. I could hear the CD >> spinning in the >> drive, but the image never mounted. >> >> Then I was trying to copy over and work with some pictures from my >> XD media >> card for my digital camera and I kept getting a message when I >> opened the >> files in PhotoShop that the file had been truncated. (These same >> cards and >> pictures worked fine on my laptop.) >> >> Today I went to use my USB jump drive and it won't mount either. >> In all >> cases if I use Disk Utility I can see that the CD, media card, >> jump drive, >> etc. are available and the mount and unmount buttons are available >> to me, >> but I never see a disk image on my desktop. I did check the finder >> preferences to make sure that removable media are set to show up >> on the >> desktop and I trashed and replaced the finder preferences file in >> case it >> was corrupt. I've run Disk Utility and Cocktail on my machine and >> I still >> have the same problem. >> Any advice on what would keep these images from showing up? >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Beth | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
