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Very recently, my MacBook, Monterey Version 12.2.1 is not recognizing flash drives, none--not just a particular one. I do connect the gadget to be able to plug in USBs and it does recognize an external hard drive which I use for backups, just the flash drives are not recognized and it had been seeing them. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help you can provide--
I was on the phone with a young lady from Apple for over an hour. Evidently, Monterey has issues with hubs--some are now recognized but some still aren't. Mine is evidently one of them. Saying that I will look at what you sent and I will be picking up a new flash drive to try it. Thanks for your help.
That is the missing piece. I didn't know you were using a hub. And yes I have had trouble when using a hub for a flash drive. So I plug the flash drive directly to my Mac. Is this a powered hub? I've had some luck with the self powered ones.
the MacBook Pro does not have USB ports so you must have a hub to use USB drives. It has worked until recently and, after speaking with an Apple support personnel, appears to be directly related to the Monterey update which is a pain. So, I'm going to try to purchase a new flash drive as Monterey may only support hubs using 3.0 versions of flash drives. The hub works as I plug in the power for the MacBook to charge as well as an external hard drive for the time machine backups. It may also be a matter of waiting for another upgrade to Monterey. Thanks for your efforts, though.
Have you tried opening disk utilities to seehttps://iboysoft.com/mac-data-recovery/usb-flash-drive-not-showing-up-on-mac.html if it shows?
Well, this is now solved.... I purchased a smaller flash drive but 3.0 (all of mine are 2.0) and it is recognized so I will just have to transfer all my info from the 2.0 to the 3.0.
macOS Monterey Version 12.2.1 not recognizing flashdrives
