Hi Tony,
Couple of things to try: If disk is recognised but not “mounted” it will show up in disk utility – fire up disk utility, look for the disk, if it is showing but “greyed out” select it and hit the “mount” button. If the drive is not even showing, I would always first try just unplugging and re-plugging the lead (FW or USB) I nearly always find this sorts things out. If not, I believe there are some tried methods involving unplugging both the leads and the drives and then using a particular order for re-connecting – I can’t say that I’ve ever had the situation where this is required but I believe it helps in some situations (google it). Still no luck? – try running “system report” – on my El Capitan, I go to “about this mac” (top of the apple menu) and then click the “System Report” button then look under “hardware” in the sidebar and select the appropriate item (firewire or USB) - then you should be able to see what is connected. On later OSX versions the method for running a “System Report” may have changed – but that should be easy to check. If you still cannot see it you may have a hardware problem – you can generally narrow this down, through a process of elimination, to the actual external drive, or the connecting cable, or possibly the port on the mac. That should give you plenty to work through! Let us know how you get on. Cheers Neil From: <wamug.org.au-wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of "Anthony (Tony) Francis" <antne...@mac.com> Reply-To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Date: Friday, 07 August 2020 at 17:47 To: WAMUG <wamug@wamug.org.au> Subject: Re: Finding attachments. Hi Steven Sorry, I have two External Hard Drives that I have at different times connected to my Computer, both turned “On” but don’t show up on the Desktop, I have a third that as soon as it is connected into the Computer it is recognised almost immediately. I had this problem once before and Ronnie gave me instructions on how to check what is actually connected to the computer but not actually showing on the Desk Top, I have forgotten how to do this. I thought it was in Utilities, but no luck. Thanks Steven Tony On 7 Aug 2020, at 5:36 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: Hi Tony. I am not sure what you mean. Attachments are files that are attached to an email ? On 7 Aug 2020, at 2:18 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <antne...@icloud.com> wrote: Good Afternoon Members I have forgotten how to find attachments that are connected to my iMac, but not showing on the desktop, Ronnie helped me once but I have long since forgotten. Any help would be appreciated, the grey matter ain’t what is was. Thanks Guy’s Kind Regards Tony BODDINGTON. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe -
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