External drives not displaying

[Jon 245]

Just bought M2 MBP with Ventura 13.3.1 OS.

Tried to plug in external SSD and USB flash drives and it's not picked up, no error messages pop up. All the boxes are ticked in settings to show external drives....

Tried all the different ports, all the same, no success.

Luckily i've kept my old MBP ( 2018 ) and all the drives work on there without issue.

Any thoughts what to try?

Thanks.

 

[Fishrrman]

Did you go to finder/settings/general and check the right boxes?

If you did that, and still nothing, isn't there a new setting buried somewhere in the system settings that you set to permit USB devices to be attached?

 

[Slartibart]

Do they show in e.g. Apple’s Disk Utility?

 

[cbdilger]

Fishrrman has good ideas.

You can use Disk Utility to see if the drives are being seen by the system and not being mounted.

 

[CoastalOR]

OP;
Since you have a Apple silicon Mac & Ventura you may be experiencing a problem with Apples new security "feature".

How to manage Thunderbolt & USB security in macOS Ventura | AppleInsider

As part of the security improvements in Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Ventura, Apple has made it so that new USB or Thunderbolt devices have to be approved. Here's how to manage how often you see the requests.

appleinsider.com

Make sure you Allow accessories to connect in Security section of Privacy & Security in the Ventura System Settings.

 

[Jon 245]

OP;
Since you have a Apple silicon Mac & Ventura you may be experiencing a problem with Apples new security "feature".

How to manage Thunderbolt & USB security in macOS Ventura | AppleInsider

As part of the security improvements in Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Ventura, Apple has made it so that new USB or Thunderbolt devices have to be approved. Here's how to manage how often you see the requests.

appleinsider.com

Make sure you Allow accessories to connect in Security section of Privacy & Security in the Ventura System Settings.

This link did the trick - thank you.