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Soldato
If the external drive is shown under Disk Utility but is greyed out, then you might be able to mount it using diskutil, ie -
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diskutil list
diskutil mountDisk "disk identifier here without quotes"You can also see if it's flagged the 'Allow accessories to connect' prompt within Setting > Security & Privacy (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102282) and enable it if so. Saw this back with the Sonoma release and a particular models of external drive (was a Seagate, iirc) we had in the office.
Edit - Thinking out loud, it could be a power issue with the USBx port; only way to check is to use a powered USB hub though.
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Came here to say this. And ongoing issue with the corporate WiFi just not working 7/10 times I connect.
Commissario
Aren’t they? Odd. I dumped a load of files to one earlier today.
Mine works fine.
Soldato
Can confirm, dd'd an iso to one last night. Not the sort of bug that would generally get through QA.
I'm old. I can't imagine a walkman with a USB connection
.I used three yesterday so I'd suggest this is a more isolated issue
Soldato
What was the solution? Just in case someone else stumbles on these posts...
Edit - One of the techs at work mentioned there were issues around power draw on USB3 ports, which caused a some issues with external drives when Sonoma was released; so i wonder if it's the same issue. As you say, there's a few posts dotted around the Apple forums and Reddit with others having the same problem so you're definitely not alone.
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It was something todo with the flash drive itself I think, I ended up with a different drive and reformatting. It's formatted FAT to transfer data from an oscilloscope to the computer.
It just didn't seem to even acknowledge the drive presence (even in diskutil). It seemed that others had issues (FAT flash drives) but no idea why as non of them could provide any diagnostics except "it worked before" but I'm now putting that down to the drive. Funny I never had an issue before with Somona but then.. Somona doesn't work either.. so either there was a USB patch or the drive died.
I'd expect some USB activity (the drive powers itself) but doesn't seem to hand shake USB properly to get on the USB tree. I've written some low level USB Audio class 2 drivers for the Mac before and the Mac USB a bit specific what I will support and not support.
The walkman has a security hole as the software requires you to allow accessibility .. which enables control of the computer.. so that's only on the disposable free MB laptop. It actually required a restart so I'm concerned it's made some driver changes.
It just didn't seem to even acknowledge the drive presence (even in diskutil). It seemed that others had issues (FAT flash drives) but no idea why as non of them could provide any diagnostics except "it worked before" but I'm now putting that down to the drive. Funny I never had an issue before with Somona but then.. Somona doesn't work either.. so either there was a USB patch or the drive died.
I'd expect some USB activity (the drive powers itself) but doesn't seem to hand shake USB properly to get on the USB tree. I've written some low level USB Audio class 2 drivers for the Mac before and the Mac USB a bit specific what I will support and not support.
The walkman has a security hole as the software requires you to allow accessibility .. which enables control of the computer.. so that's only on the disposable free MB laptop. It actually required a restart so I'm concerned it's made some driver changes.
Soldato
Removed Logitech+ or that Options software from my Mac Mini as it just hasn't been working these past few days. Upon firing up the app, which I rarely do it asks me to enable it in the Login options however there is no entry there to enable. I think it just needs updating.
It is odd because its been working fine since upgrading to Seqouia. Only since yesterday I noticed my side wheel on my MX Master not controlling the OS Volume which it is set to.
It is odd because its been working fine since upgrading to Seqouia. Only since yesterday I noticed my side wheel on my MX Master not controlling the OS Volume which it is set to.
Soldato
The 15.1 RC was seeded yesterday, running it now 
All being well should see the final release next week
All being well should see the final release next week
Soldato
Having had a quick play on a test bench earlier, 15.1 seems to have solved a lot of the initial issues with 15 although A.I features still seem in beta.The 15.1 RC was seeded yesterday, running it now
All being well should see the final release next week
Seen Monday 28th mentioned for public release *fingers crossed*...
Soldato
I don’t tend to run betas or RCs but the update to Sequoia felt like I already was anyway
I believe a number of the A.I features are scheduled for December…
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Soldato
I can't test it with the work laptop, as we use a specific client which has a menu-bar, but from memory this used to work:
Use the VPN status menu in the menu bar on Mac
On your Mac, use the VPN status menu to quickly connect to or disconnect from a VPN, track connection time, and display status while connecting.
support.apple.com
Oh, awesome! Thank you. That link worked.
No all been fine here (on an M3 Pro MBP)