abarbarian Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I lent me new camera to a friends daughter fpr half an hour as she is a dead keen photographer with little loot.After spending a happy time in the garden she had a fair few pictures taken. I took out the sdhc from the camera and told her she could download them to her Mac laptop which I think is running the latest os. This she did. As she was not happy with some of the photos I think that she deleted a few, I'm not sure if she did this from the sd card or after she had downloaded them. On arrival at home I placed the card into a reader and I noticed that along with the picture folders there were a couple of extra folders showing on the card. I then uploaded a picture from the card to Imgur an online picture site, everything worked fine. I then decided to upload another picture but the sd card did not show up in my file manager. After several tries I took out the sd card and replaced it in the camera. Where to my surprise the card showed up as unformatted. What is going on ? Did the Mac do something to the sd card ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 No, the Mac didn't do anything to the card. You could have easily removed those 'extra' meta and dot files with no worries. Sounds like it was just a coincidence and the card just lost it's marbles. Reformat it and see if it comes back. Or maybe it's just truly dead now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 Ta Fran. Card is not dead. Seems I have a pengremlin. A pox on Arch and all dodgy systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I remove those files all the time for years now without any worries. So I knew first hand that it couldn't have been that. Sometimes flash drives do lose their marbles though. Sometimes you can put the marbles back and sometimes you can't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I support your indignation, abarbarian. I have loaned a flash key to a Mac using friend several times and it comes back with 2 or 3 hidden files on it after just being used to read data. What part of "read" does MacOS not understand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) I agree!!! They should not be crapping all over people's USB drives! Really annoying! They can get a program called Cocktail (not free- normally $19 per computer or $39 for family pack - single computer is on sale for $14 and family pack for $29 right now) to keep the Mac from putting those 'hidden' files on external USB drives. I say hidden but they are only hidden (some of them) from the Mac user. Windows and Linux can see them all. Edited June 13, 2013 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Linux doesn't put down markers on USB thumbdrives? why did i think it did. maybe some versions of *nix (including Macs) do ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 No, only Macs do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I've never had any distro (have used over a dozen in the past decade) put files like that on a drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Me either Adam. Only the Mac is messy like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Me either Adam. Only the Mac is messy like that. An crappy Pentax cameras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Ah, yes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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