As the title states: How do I make external devices connected to my Mac appear on my desktop?
Cos the thing is that my Mac's hard drive got corrupted for whatever reason I don't know so I had to re-install my OS (Lion). Now the thing is that unlike before if I connected my phone, flash drive or wanted to install a new applicatiion it would appear on my desktop as an icon, now it doesn't.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
When I plug ina device, it only shows in the finder and doesn't display an icon on the desktop.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 15" Retina Display Macbook Pro
I recently RE-Imaged my MacBook Air because of other software issues. Well that fixed those problems, now I am having other problems! When I plug a Pendrive, or my External HD into the MBA it doesn't appear on the desktop but it does show up in the Finder Window.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I use a Western Digital Passport as my external drive. When I link the USB I get no icon on my desktop and the device is not recognised unless I activate the WD Smartware to unlock it. That's not a lot of use when I want to download some files from a computer (like my wifes's) (also an iMac) which doesn't have the Smartware installed. why my desktop won't register the drive and why my wife's computer won't recognise the thing at all?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Imac, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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I have read Q&A from someone who tried to give similar shortcuts to customers, but I did not understand the answers. I'm Swedish and Mac Keyboard and Desktop menues etc are in Swedish so the exact terms in English may be difficult to translate. My problem is different since it's only on my Mac I need the shortcuts/icons/links.
I have to rename an external drive that appears under "Devices" in Finder.
But when the drive is highlighted and I go to "Info," what comes up is whatever is highlighted WITHIN the drive.
How do I rename the drive itself?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
External drive does not appear on desktop?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
My backup harddrive has suddeny disappeared from my desktop. It happened after I shut off which took loger than usual. I have also two other external harddrives, which are new formatted that does not show up.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Trying to back up data for genius bar appointment, but external harddrive is not showing on desktop.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.1)
I am helping a friend out with her mac. She by accidentally removed her desktop icon under devices and needs to get it back. The best way for me to elaborate is to explain, you know when you are in a program...and you want to open a document on your desktop, so you use that programs open function and you look on the left for your desktop icon which falls under Devices at the top left...well that desktop icon is missing.
I tried searching for devices folder on the mac but was unable to find it, I was just going to drag a desktop shortcut into this folder...
I have three external harddrives all of which are connected through different ports, all show up in finder, all show up in disk utility, but none of them will show up on my desktop. I looked at a few other posts similar to mine but the answers given to other problems have not worked. There is no way all three of my cords are causing a connection problem and I have repaired and verifyd all the drives and still nothing.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), External HD: WD Elements 2TB
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At least we have some official words that it does work and can expect those converter to be available soon
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2x2.4GHzQuadCore 16GB-Mem 2x1TB HDD
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009)
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