4 Replies Latest reply on Mar 17, 2013 10:09 AM by conroy

My external hard drive has disappeared

peter848 Mar 2, 2013 5:59 AM

My external hard drive has disappeared from the 'open file' window in photoshop CS6. It's working fine and appears in other applications such as bridge and lightroom. How do I get it back? I'm running a Mac on OS X.

1. Re: My external hard drive has disappeared

Chris Cox Mar 2, 2013 10:35 AM (in response to peter848)

The "open" and "save" dialogs are OS dialogs. Photoshop doesn't really control the dialog.

Did you hide the devices section in the left-hand panel of the open dialog? (there's a rollover button that says "show" or "hide")
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2. Re: My external hard drive has disappeared

peter848 Mar 17, 2013 5:16 AM (in response to Chris Cox)

Nope, all the other devices are showing (Hard disc, iDisc and Memory card). Any ideas how I might control the dialogs within Mac OS X?
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3. Re: My external hard drive has disappeared

Curt Y Mar 17, 2013 9:33 AM (in response to peter848)

Probably the hard drive is not powered up. Put your hand on it and see it you can feel it spinning. If not it is probably off. If it is spinning then try rebooting computer.
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4. Re: My external hard drive has disappeared

conroy Mar 17, 2013 10:09 AM (in response to peter848)
You may have accidentally dragged the drive out of the Devices list in the sidebar.

In a Finder window with visible sidebar, do Shift+Cmd+G to get the Go To Folder dialog. Enter
/volumes

then click OK.

You'll see all your mounted volumes in the Finder window. Drag the required one to the Devices list in the sidebar.
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