USB Memory stick problems

chemistry_geek · #1 November 3rd, 2004, 12:57 PM

I have a SanDisk 256MB USB memory stick and while it was mounted in the Finder I accidentally pulled it out of the USB slot before properly unmounting it by pressing the eject button next to it in the Finder. A message popped up stating that I removed a mounted drive and that damage to the volume could have occured. Now when I plug it into my Macintosh, it doesn't show up in the Finder but I can navigate to it and into it using the Terminal and RBrowserLite. Why doesn't it show up in the Finder? Also, when I run Disk Utility it is listed in the drives connected to the computer. I copied everything off the memory stick using 'cp -R /Volumes/SanDisk /Volumes/[Destination Directory]' with success, wiped the USB memory stick with Disk Utility, and it still won't appear in the Finder. It works with my Windows PC at work just fine. Is there some corrupted Finder file I have to delete to restore Finder access to the memory stick?

ElDiabloConCaca · #2 November 3rd, 2004, 02:57 PM

Have you tried logging out and then back in, or restarting the computer? USB problems like that that I've had usually get solved with a good, fresh restart.

quiksan · #3 November 3rd, 2004, 03:32 PM

while I'd bet on the log out/reboot working, if it doesn't maybe check the finder preferences, that somehow yanking it didn't reset the viewing options to NOT show the mounted volumes.

sorry, not in front of my powerbook now, so don't know the exact terms...

chemistry_geek · #4 November 3rd, 2004, 04:12 PM

I logged in/out and rebooted several times, even powered down and restarted. The USB memory stick isn't visible in the Finder.

ElDiabloConCaca · #5 November 3rd, 2004, 05:13 PM

Hmm... you might wanna check out Panther Cache Cleaner from versiontracker.com. It has several Finder-related cache cleaning routines -- perhaps something in the Finder's mounted disk cache got screwy...