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Flash Drive does not show in Finder Sidebar
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<blockquote data-quote="stefanmaine" data-source="post: 1828791" data-attributes="member: 197051"><p>MacInWin, You’re right, dragging the mouse pointer over any part of the “Devices” line reveals “hide” or “show,” as appropriate. Thanks for catching that.</p><p></p><p>Which brings me to the interesting discussion (some of it over my head) that evolved here about Apple OS’s design. Since switching in 2011 to a Mac after decades of DOS and Windows, I have been impressed. My experience has been that Apple’s OS (I started with Leopard, now have Sierra) is preferable to any version of Windows (I have used all of them) by almost any measure. My only objection has been that sometimes it seems Apple expects users to read their (Apple’s) mind. (Windows’ design, by comparison, seems often to be mindless.) The “hide/show” issue that I raised in this thread is an example. There is no user-accessible mention of it (that I could find) anywhere. I presume the default choice is “show,” because a flash drive has always appeared in the sidebar under “Devices” when I plugged one into a USB port. It just showed. Until last week, when I wrote the post that started this thread. I had plugged a flash drive into a USB port to transfer a file from my iMac to a friend’s PC, and the drive did not display on the Finder sidebar. “Huh?” I thought. I searched around at Finder>Preferences and elsewhere. Then, as I have done successfully many times, for which I am always grateful, I came here. At some point after posting, I apparently unintentionally, coincidentally, fortuitously, dragged the mouse pointer somewhere along the Devices line, and "show" displayed. Now, I wonder, did the OS design team writing the Finder>Preferences>Sidebar actually decide, “Let’s display ‘Devices/External disks’ in the checklist, but nowhere mention the disappearing ‘hide/show’ because users will know intuitively that it’s there. After all, we know it's there, why wouldn't they”?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stefanmaine, post: 1828791, member: 197051"] MacInWin, You’re right, dragging the mouse pointer over any part of the “Devices” line reveals “hide” or “show,” as appropriate. Thanks for catching that. Which brings me to the interesting discussion (some of it over my head) that evolved here about Apple OS’s design. Since switching in 2011 to a Mac after decades of DOS and Windows, I have been impressed. My experience has been that Apple’s OS (I started with Leopard, now have Sierra) is preferable to any version of Windows (I have used all of them) by almost any measure. My only objection has been that sometimes it seems Apple expects users to read their (Apple’s) mind. (Windows’ design, by comparison, seems often to be mindless.) The “hide/show” issue that I raised in this thread is an example. There is no user-accessible mention of it (that I could find) anywhere. I presume the default choice is “show,” because a flash drive has always appeared in the sidebar under “Devices” when I plugged one into a USB port. It just showed. Until last week, when I wrote the post that started this thread. I had plugged a flash drive into a USB port to transfer a file from my iMac to a friend’s PC, and the drive did not display on the Finder sidebar. “Huh?” I thought. I searched around at Finder>Preferences and elsewhere. Then, as I have done successfully many times, for which I am always grateful, I came here. At some point after posting, I apparently unintentionally, coincidentally, fortuitously, dragged the mouse pointer somewhere along the Devices line, and "show" displayed. Now, I wonder, did the OS design team writing the Finder>Preferences>Sidebar actually decide, “Let’s display ‘Devices/External disks’ in the checklist, but nowhere mention the disappearing ‘hide/show’ because users will know intuitively that it’s there. After all, we know it's there, why wouldn't they”? [/QUOTE]
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