Lacie drives conserve power by spinning down when you set your computer to sleep mode.
Lacie rugged hard drive not showing up mac.
Ignore this message since the drive remounts on the desktop despite the pop up.
Current products which lacie considers usb 3 0 usb 3 1 and or thunderbolt 2 or 3 capable are listed in the following table.
You can also see it in the finder in the left column under.
Only use certified interface cables such as the cables provided with your lacie drive.
Finally if your drive is online and formatted but doesn t show a drive letter next to its name right click the volume and choose change drive letter and paths to add a drive letter.
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Some lacie drives now ship with the lacie setup assistant installed.
Normally when you plug in an external hard drive to your mac s usb port you will see it appear on the desktop aka mount on the desktop.
Hard drives usb 3 0 drive mobile drive rugged.
Compatibility information for lacie hardware and software is listed below.
Older drives that are not listed in this table may work but have not been tested.
The lacie setup assistant will automatically prepare your lacie hard drive for use on your system.
When the computer awakes from sleep mode the drive may not have enough time to spin up causing the pop up to appear.
If you have followed all of these steps and the drive is still not recognized shut down your computer wait 3 to 5 minutes restart your computer and try again.