Can you clarify what it is that you're doing?
Can you clarify what it is that you're doing?
I've never seen this before in my life. When you plug the external in, it's represented as an alias on your Desktop? Even if this were the case, you should still be able to access the files.
Please do not cross post. I merged your cross post together here with your original question. Besides, you cross posted to an old thread.
And you cross posted again, this time to the Switcher forum. Again, you are reminded not to cross post but only post one thread in one forum and continue with the same thread. Your second cross post was also merged here.
Like I noted, this is a mystery to me. If you open Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities), does the external show up there?