External thumb drive operation

It has been long since I used a USB on my OS X 10.9.5 with 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, iMac. I have plugged and found symbol of the external drive in the Finder on the side of the menu, pressed to save the document that I had finished, and the symbol purely and simply disappeared as the doc was preserved in the drive. So now I can not find the USB external symbol anywhere and I want to remove safely from the port. But where can I find it?

If it appears in the disk utility you can eject it. You can also close your iMac and remove it. Once you have restarted, you should check to see that your document has in fact saved and make sure that the USB is ok.

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