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abarbarian

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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 ?

 

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Guest LilBambi

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.

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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. ;)

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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? :angry2:

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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.

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