[LUG] USB stick does not display

[Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having some problems with my USB sticks. When I insert them, they 
do not display anything on the screen. I checked via lsusb, and the 
sticks are showing in the list as an extra line of information. They 
just do not display on the screen. This applies to several sticks that I 
have tried.

Strangely, I also have an external hard drive which works just fine 
every time, and displays as an icon on the desktop and also 
automatically opens up the relevant directory to show the contents. It 
is only most of the sticks which don't work.

And, again very strange, I have several USB sticks of varying sizes and 
ages. Just one of them works as expected every time. All the others fail.

Weird or what? Can anyone suggest how I can get the sticks to display, 
both as a new icon on the desktop, and then opening up my file manager 
to show the contents?

This applies to my desktop, running Linux Lite, and to my laptop which 
is running MX Linux. Same symptoms on both.

Thanks,

Neil

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