Stupid Finder Tricks
I like the Mac a whole lot better than my PC, but there are still a few areas of wonkiness. This morning, I killed the Finder by double clicking on the 2 GB USB icon on the desktop.
Now, that seemed odd to me - the first thing I thought was "oh crap, what now?" However, I recalled that I had ejected a "phantom" CD yesterday, and then it clicked. After rebooting the machine (thank you, ssh access!), I plugged the USB stick back in. Sure enough, it came up as both a drive icon and a CD icon. The trouble comes if I eject the "phantom" CD. That turns off the USB stick, but it still looks like it's on.
Some kinds of wonkiness are not limited to Windows...
Comments
USB stick showing up as a phantom CD
[FastJack] September 3, 2006 13:10:05.388
That USB stick is not one of those "smart" U3 sticks? I had that problem with my SanDisk Cruzer. It showed up as a USB drive and an rewritable CD in finder (and on the desktop). Of course I couldn't really write anything to that CD and it was annoying that the stick showed up as two devices.
In the end I plugged that stick into a windows machine and deinstalled that U3-crap completely. Now my USB stick works as expected. No more annoying "phantom" CD.
Re: Stupid Finder Tricks
[ James Robertson] September 3, 2006 15:23:43.358
Comment by James Robertson
Yes, it does have U3 on it. Thanks for the tip!