With a USB flash drive one sees right away if the Mac recognized the drive or not The flash drive will usually show up then.

When I insert a USB flash drive, the drive occasionally doesn't show up on the desktop. I find that the USB ports on the various Macs I had are a bit 'flaky' (for want of a better word.) The other is to reinsert the USB cable at the iMac end.

IMac has already been rebooted - this is one thing I would have tried. The drive used to work with the iMac but then suddenly stopped working.Īnd the drive has shown not to be defective. As new formats emerge, update your media player software.Just looking through the thread again.

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