Double-click the drive icon to open it and view your files. How to Open a USB Drive on a Mac

If it’s not on the desktop, click the Finder icon (the blue smiley face) in your Dock.

She opened “My Computer.” There it was: “Removable Disk (E:).” Double-click. A folder opened. Inside: not financial records or scanned documents, but voice recordings. Dozens of them. Dated over the last two years of her mother’s life.

If you have plugged it in but nothing happens:

She left the note on the desk. And for the first time in six months, she turned off the computer—not because she was done with it, but because she had finally opened what mattered.