- #Kindle transfer not showing kindle mac os x#
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Once done, it might launch (or you can launch it directly from Applications), but without an Android device like the Kindle plugged in, all you’ll get is this: This is the easy app installation process on the Mac: Just click and drag the Android File Transfer program icon onto the Applications icon and it’ll be installed on your computer in, yes, your Applications folder. Once it’s downloaded, you’ll have a new device on your Desktop.ĭouble-click to open it and this is what you’ll see: The link you need is at or you can just click on this graphic:
#Kindle transfer not showing kindle download#
Interestingly, it’s not available in the App Store either, so you’ll have to go old school and download it yourself.
#Kindle transfer not showing kindle install#
To get that, you’ll need to get a program called Android File Transfer and install it. Let me show you the steps as it’s pretty easy once you know where to grab the app.įirst off, here’s my Finder window with an Amazon Kindle Fire 8 HD plugged in to my MacBook Pro:
#Kindle transfer not showing kindle mac os x#
The bad news is that Apple doesn’t seem to be much of a fan of the Google-created Android operating system and while you can plug in a Windows hard drive and have it show up on your Mac system without fuss, Android requires that you actually download a new program and use that to access Android-based devices when hooked up to a Mac OS X system, even in 10.11 El Capitan. Under the hood, it turns out that your Kindle is running a custom version of Android, the same operating system that powers Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphones and LG wearables, televisions and much more. Note that I haven't actually tried this since I don't have a Kindle and I'm only guessing at the actual file system which you supply to the -t flag for mount, but I'd bet its ext3.Congrats on what sounds like a very nice present: the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Fire 8 are very nice tablets with vivid color screens and, of course, tight integration with the Amazon experience, both books through Kindle and shopping through the various Amazon apps you can download. And you can also use the terminal and cd to /mnt/kindle which should show you a mounted Kindle file system. You should be able to see the Kindle in your file manager now. (that assumes you've created a directory called "kindle" under /mnt) You can mount that device as root with this command sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb/ /mnt/kindle/
Of coruse you'll see something different because I doubt the Kindle will identify itself as a generic SD MMC device. You should see something like this lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 7 20:01 usb-Generic-_SD_MMC_058F63646476-0:0 ->.
You can confirm this with sudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ If you look at the last line above, you'll see 'sdb' in brakets, that is the device node that the new USB device is attached too. Or similar and you should see a line like this as well sd 4:0:0:1: Attached SCSI removable disk Look for lines in dmesg like usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13 I'd start with dmesg as you've done and note which device node the Kindle is put on. The approach I would take would be to mount the Kindle and then you can cp files over in the terminal or likely even the file browser. If not, try the technical solution below: Just plug it in and look for a "Kindle Fire" icon to appear in your launcher sidebar. The Kindle Fire is reported to connect properly out of the box by several users. I should note that, since I got Dropbox working on my Kindle, the usb is no longer strictly necessary, but as a matter of principle I'd love to get it working. sd 8:0:0:0: Attached SCSI removable diskįilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Amazon Kindle 0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 usb 1-1: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd ieee80211 phy0: wl_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: enabled true, count 1 (implement) Here are the last 15 lines of dmesg after plugging the kindle in: dmesg | tail -n 15 I never get the message on the Kindle telling me it is ready to accept files from the computer, though. It does not appear to be a usb power issue, since the Kindle Fire wakes up from sleeping when it is plugged in. Other usb devices, such as my ipod and digital camera, are recognized just fine. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, and when I connect my Kindle Fire to my computer via micro usb, it is not recognized automatically.
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