Re: New Mac OS - little things that are most annoying
Re: New Mac OS - little things that are most annoying
- Subject: Re: New Mac OS - little things that are most annoying
- From: Mark Stegman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:15:20 +1100
Rory,
Thanks for your suggestion. I ill try it as a more reliable alternative.
I would rather Apple fix their products or, should I say, just not break those that work. With any luck they are monitoring this forum.
Regards,
Mark
> On 19 Oct 2015, at 7:03 PM, Rory Leonard <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Try this from the SD Card Association .
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> SD Card Formatter. Gratis.
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> https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
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> There's two versions, one runs on Windows the other on a Mac.
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> I'm on Mac OS 10.10.5 - seems fine.
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> The SD card is always be formatted for Windows use.
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> The program can also do a 'low level or write zero's' erase.
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> It fixed a troublesome 256 GB SD Card I have - the Apple Disc Utility didn't format it with the correct block size. Made it unreadable via Bootcamp partition.
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> Regards Rory
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> Sent from my iPhone
>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 03:21, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Ben,
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>> Update... I thought I would try what you said I had done (and didn't do)
>> and used the MBR option for the partition map scheme. It worked! Sort of.
>>
>> The PC did not recognise the flash drive and required me to reformat it,
>> which I did, only this time it recognised its full capacity (8gb) so I was
>> able to reformat the drive as FAT32 and have workable device. This was
>> leading me to the conclusion that the menus for the partition map scheme in
>> the Mac Disk Utility are now simply wrong.
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>> I plugged the flash drive back into the Mac. It seemed to be working fine.
>> I copied files OK. Then I tried reformatting it again using the Disk
>> Utility. Now the partition map scheme options for MS-DOS (FAT), ExFAT or
>> any other scheme have disappeared! If I return to the other flash drive
>> formatted using GUID the options appear again.
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>> I feel like I am wasting my time... and yours, but this is a pain when
>> other people still require files to be delivered or backed up on Windows
>> compatible flash drives. It seems my crusty old PC is still good for
>> something. At least I have one way of creating a usable, windows compatible
>> flash drive... use a PC.
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>> Thanks.
>>
>> Mark
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>>> On 19 October 2015 at 10:09, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Ben,
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>>> Sorry but that its NOT what I did. I used the default GUID Partition Map.
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>>> Mark
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>>>>> On 19 October 2015 at 10:00, Ben Goren <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>> On Oct 18, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>> In ALL cases the PC told me that the drive was unreadable and that I
>>>> needed
>>>>> to format it, which I did. However, it would only allocate 200mb of
>>>> space.
>>>>
>>>> You partitioned the disk with an MBR partition map rather than GPT. You'd
>>>> only ever want MBR for ancient legacy stuff.
>>>>
>>>> b&
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