[G4] Invisible flash drive on G4

[Harry A. Freeman]

Greetings Ronald,

Make your "Finder" active, the select from the "Finder" drop-down menu  
"Preferences"
When the "Finder Preferences" window appears, select "General"
Then select from
"Show these items on the Desktop:"
	Hard disk
	External disks
	CDs, DVDs, and iPods

New Finder windows open:
	Home
	ect. ect. ect.

Always open folder in a new window

Spring-loaded folders and windows
	Delay . . . . . . . .

Press Space Bar to open immediately
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You can also select from:
Labels
Sidebar
   and
Advanced

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Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca
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On Mar 3, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Ronald Sweet wrote:

> I have a Gigabit Ethernet Dual Processor 500 Mhz Power Mac G4 with  
> 120 GB hard drive and a 5-port Belkin USB 2.0 card. OS X 10.4.11.
>
> I also have a Staples Relay 2 GB Hi-Speed USB 2.0 flash drive,  
> formatted Mac OS Journaled HFS+ (originally formatted FAT).
>
> The flash card mounts as it should on an iMac11,2 and a MacBook2,1.
>
> But its icon does not show up on the G4's desk top. Nonetheless, the  
> G4's About This Mac/Hardware/USB recognizes it under USB High-Speed  
> Bus/Mass Storage, and gives its Mount Point as /Volumes/Flash Disk  
> 1. Disk Utility also recognizes it, this time as 2.0 GB Generic  
> Flash Disk, Flash Disk 1, with its Mount Point again /Volumes/Flash  
> Disk 1. But because no icon of the flash drive shows up on the desk  
> top, I cannot open it to use it. Nor can I select the icon to drag  
> it to the trash when I want to remove the flash drive. The Device  
> Removal dialog box therefore comes up: "The device you removed was  
> not properly put away. Data might have been lost or damaged. …  
> " (none has been so far).
>
> Can someone tell me what needs to be done to make this flash drive  
> mount on the G4?
>
> Ronald Sweet
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