When I plug in my Nexus 5 into my Mid 2013 MacBook Air 11" nothing happens. It doesn't show up in the finder / on the desktop and when I enable USB tethering, it doesn't show up in my network preferences.
But when I connect the USB cable with Nexus 5 while parallels with Windows 8.1 is running and choose to use the connected device in Windows 8.1 – everything works as expected.
So the problem isn't anywhere in the hardware, nor in my Nexus 5, but somewhere in the OS X.
Any ideas how to find more info, fix it?
Update:
In the System Report generated by About This Mac, I can see my device connected via USB.
Best Answer
Not sure if you ever solved this as its 30 days old, but in OS X you need The Android File Transfer App running in the background in order to mount your Android shares. Hope this helps.