Way to force read a USB flash drive on OSX 10.6.8 that shows up in the system profiler but not on the desktop

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USB High-Speed Bus:

Host Controller Location: Built-in USB
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBEHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x3b3c
PCI Revision ID: 0x0006
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086
Bus Number: 0xfa

Hub:

Product ID: 0x2514
Vendor ID: 0x0424 (SMSC)
Version: 0.03
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Location ID: 0xfa100000 / 2
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 2

USB Flash Drive:

Product ID: 0xc75c
Vendor ID: 0x05dc (Lexar Media, Inc.)
Version: 1.02
Serial Number: 20130610231308265957
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Lexar
Location ID: 0xfa130000 / 7
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 200

Best Answer

You should be able to do it with terminal, in case it's just not mounted automatically

  1. Open terminal
  2. type diskutil list and hit enter
  3. Check which disk you want to browse, I'll use disk3 in this example, and get the IDENTIFIER from the line that shows the device name. So in my example the line wold be 2: Apple_HFS DiskName 999.9 GB disk3s2
  4. Type diskutil info /dev/disk3s2 and get the mount point. Mout it with diskutil mount /dev/disk3s2
  5. Now it should show up in finder.
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