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December 21, 2010 04:03 PM

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Hilarious

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Joined: 11/16/2010

I have just acquired a Pogoplug, running 2.5.5 and was delighted to see the partitions on the USB drive appearing in Finder.  PP was connected to the D-Link DIR-615 router, running DD-WRT.  Wanting it off that routers limited number of ports, I shifted it to the switch on my desk which had a spare port and it vanished from Finder after the move.  Restarting the PP and the Mac made no improvement.  I have moved it back to the initial router port and it STILL is not showing in Finder.  My heart sinks.

This seems to be a deal-breaking fault if the forum posts are to be believed.  Are there any Mac Pogoplug users reading this who have had uninterrupted access to their PPs?  Any still-users who have cracked this seeming widely-experienced problem?  How?

Hilarious

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December 21, 2010 10:53 PM

Have you tried the web interface (my.pogoplug.com) to mount/attach the drive?

December 22, 2010 3:29 PM

Hi again,

No, I haven't and I can't believe that uploads are done by email... Is this so? I can find no way to mount via the web page on my Mac but a Windows laptop shows the HDD as expected. Sort of, for it doesn't show one of the partitions. When it's working, my Mac shows both.

As I said in my reply to my reply to you in a related post "I suspect... its flakey Mac Drive software. This is disappointing as my main use for it is as a file server...

Hilarious

December 22, 2010 5:24 PM

If you use the web interface and the PogoPlug detects no drives it should show a button to refresh the drive list. Look at the bottom left column in the main PogoPlug window (at my.pogoplug.com), do you see a flag that says "no drive dete..." (for "no drive detected on PogoPlug"). It's at the very bottom of the leftmost column (may be hard to see if not selected, since when not selected it may only appear as gray on a gray background). Select that button and you should see a window that allows you to scan for attached drives (window button says, "I attached a drive, refresh the screen.").

I believe that the way the PogoPlug works is that if a drive is dismounted you need to completely detach the drive from the PogoPlug and then reattach and power the drive. Then use the above method to refresh the drive list. I don't know why my PogoPlug seems to work this way, it could be a bug or a safety measure (safety since there is no real UI for the device itself and you shouldn't be disconnecting and connecting drives without using the PogoPlug client software on your PC/Mac).

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