I use an iMac Core i5 2.9 GHz running MacOS Sierra. Other family members use a MacBook Pro with a Core i5 also running Sierra. We frequently swap files between them using thumb drives. 99.99% of the time, this is a simple and reliable means of temporary transfer and storage. We usually swap files on a daily basis, putting new files in a new folder named with the day of the month (today would be "17"). At the end of the month, I put the folders in the trash and empty trash.
The thumb drive we're using is a tiny Samsung USB 3.0 32 GB drive we just bought a few months ago. It started acting up yesterday, having trouble mounting. This morning, both computers stopped mounting the Samsung altogether. So we now have a thumb drive with several files on that we cannot access. Disk First Aid will not detect the Samsung.
1: Is there any way to get this thumb drive to mount?
2: This is the second time I ever remember this happening. The other time was an older USB 3.0 tiny thumb drive a few years ago. Do thumb drives fail like this so easily? Or is this another problem?
3: I want to avoid constantly unloading files to a cloud storage system. We have Verizon DSL, and cloud storage uploads can be a pain. The upload hogs the entire internet connection, disrupting everything and taking a very long period to finish. Is there another way to share this between computers without leaving their files all wide open to WiFi all the time? I'm also concerned about security.
The thumb drive we're using is a tiny Samsung USB 3.0 32 GB drive we just bought a few months ago. It started acting up yesterday, having trouble mounting. This morning, both computers stopped mounting the Samsung altogether. So we now have a thumb drive with several files on that we cannot access. Disk First Aid will not detect the Samsung.
1: Is there any way to get this thumb drive to mount?
2: This is the second time I ever remember this happening. The other time was an older USB 3.0 tiny thumb drive a few years ago. Do thumb drives fail like this so easily? Or is this another problem?
3: I want to avoid constantly unloading files to a cloud storage system. We have Verizon DSL, and cloud storage uploads can be a pain. The upload hogs the entire internet connection, disrupting everything and taking a very long period to finish. Is there another way to share this between computers without leaving their files all wide open to WiFi all the time? I'm also concerned about security.