Posted on 11/30/2016 5:52:29 AM PST by ETL
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Thanks. The problem is my friend doesn’t have a PC. Only the MacBook Air. I guess I’ll have to get the card back from him and reformat it to FAT32 on my PC at home, or at a public library, refill it, then bring it back to him to do the transfer.
Thanks for the link. Am reading it now.
I just recalled being told several weeks ago that you need to go through iTunes in order to transfer files. Perhaps this only applies to audio files? Does it in fact matter what type of files they are?
iTunes doesn’t matter when you’re talking about SD cards. It’s simple disk-to-disk.
Swordmaker is our resident Apple pro. He might be able to shed some additional light on the subject if he hasn’t been pinged already.
That’s a relief. Yet I was told that by people at the Apple store! Also two guys from the GeekSquad at BestBuy.
You can get software to allow your mac to read NTFS from a company called Paragon. It is $20, but you can run it free for 10 days as a demo. Install it, copy your stuff. then you can remove it. It works.
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/index.html
...just goes to show you that there are a lot of people working at jobs they really shouldn’t be. Because something like this should be fairly routine for them.
Thanks. But I think I’ll try the other suggestion, at least this time around. Plus that free trial may be a size-limited, or otherwise restricted, version of the program.
Hi Swordmaker, Anything you can add would be appreciated. Thanks.
I have used it... No restrictions, just the time allowed.
That said, copying the stuff off, reformatting, and copying it back is an excellent option as well.
It looks as if everyone has said everything correcty and I can add nothing of any value at this point.
Ok, thanks anyway.
I do a lot of photo editing and Macs are great for that - as long as you don’t have to make them talk to other computers. I guess they are kind of like liberals in that regard - they don’t want to think any other systems exist!
Hi Swordmaker, all
I tried reformatting the SD card on a PC at the local library (my PC at home no longer is reading SD cards) and was told their computers are not set up for that function. Do you, or anyone else, know if the card can be formatted to FAT32, or whatever format(s) it is that can be read by BOTH Windows PCs and Apple products, by way of a tablet or Samsung smartphone? I did attempt to do it on my Lenovo tablet yesterday, but the tablet did not indicate which format it was converted to. How can I check which format the card is currently in? Thanks.
...forgot to mention, when I attempted the reformat on the tablet, there were no options for specific formats. Only format. I assume this means the card was formatted to work on the tablet. Perhaps that is a format that will work with both a PC and MacBook? But since it doesn’t indicate which format it is, I won”t know until I try it again in my friend’s MacBook. Again, is there a way to check what format the card currently is in?
Ping to my last two posts. Thanks in advance. :)
Your best bet would be to format the card on a regular computer, Mac/Windows/Linux where they give you choices. On Windows, from file explorer, you can generally right-click on the SD drive icon and select "Properties" from the pop up menu and it should tell you what format it is. If it can't read it at all, then you'll need to format it. That should be another option on the menu.
Your home PC can’t read the card at all now? Or does it show up in My Computer as a greyed out icon that you just can’t click? If it’s greyed out, you should still be able to format it. Or, if you have access to it, the Mac should be able to format it as well with the option to do ‘PC-readable’, or maybe it’ll give you the exFAT/FAT32 option (assuming you already backed up the contents earlier?).
If it’s not seeing the card at all, earlier you mentioned it’s a micro-SD card if I remember right? Try pulling it out of the regular SD adaptor, then put it back in? Try another adaptor? Does your PC still see other cards?
otherwise what Thunder said in 58 is correct.
Thanks.
Although my PC no longer seems to be able to read SD cards via the SD card slot, it can do so when they’re inserted within a portable device, such as the tablet, smartphone, or mp3 player. In other words, via the standard USB ports. However, when I right click on the “Card” icon for the particular portable device in My Computer, no options for formating appear. It seems the card can only be fully ulilized when inserted into the SD slot. I thought about purchasing a USB-based SD card reader/adapter. But since the card apparently is not fully accessible via a USB connection, it probably yield the same failed results as the USB portable devices.
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