Hi, This is actually not a valid statement. The drives and other external media always show up in the Finder, it is simply the location or style of "Showing up" that is handled by the Finder Preferences. By default, these items show up in the Sidebar of any open Finder window as opposed to appearing on the Desktop itself. This, therefore, keeps the Desktop less cluttered from some people's point of view. Many of us long time Mac users prefer the items to be on the Desktop itself, but many other users, as well as a lot of sighted users prefer to just access these items through the Sidebar. VO users can also access these items via the Sidebar, but most of us find it easier to place these sorts of items on our Desktop, either for convenience or due to being accustomed to operating that way.
Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 12, 2018, at 13:58, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote: Remember, drives don't show up in Finder by default. This is something about which I have never fully comes to intellectual grips. If one were to buy a Mac, bring it home, turn it on, and start using it, drives appear in Finder; if one were to install the Mac operating system from scratch, taking all the defaults with the exception of File Vault and storing the Documents directory in the cloud, no drives appear in Finder unless and until they are told to do so. On 4/12/2018 3:08 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote: > Hi Andy let's start with the basics, in the Finder you should see any > external media by default, thumb drives included. Unlike Windows, macOS > automatically mounts these external disks and places them in the Finder. Once > you have located this, press command-o to open the volume. 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