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: John Castronovo <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:35:48 -0400
- Importance: Normal
It's not like Apple to listen to feedback. Their culture is one of
innovation and design, so they're more likely to wait for everyone else to
adapt to what they've done than to admit that they've made a mistake.
john
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Stegman
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 4:15 AM
To: Rory Leonard
Cc: 'colorsync-users?lists. apple. com' List
Subject: Re: New Mac OS - little things that are most annoying
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:
Hi,
Try this from the SD Card Association .
SD Card Formatter. Gratis.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
There's two versions, one runs on Windows the other on a Mac.
I'm on Mac OS 10.10.5 - seems fine.
The SD card is always be formatted for Windows use.
The program can also do a 'low level or write zero's' erase.
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.
Regards Rory
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On 19 Oct 2015, at 03:21, Mark Stegman <email@hidden> wrote:
Ben,
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.
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.
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.
Thanks.
Mark
On 19 October 2015 at 10:09, Mark Stegman <email@hidden>
wrote:
Ben,
Sorry but that its NOT what I did. I used the default GUID Partition
Map.
Mark
On 19 October 2015 at 10:00, Ben Goren <email@hidden> wrote:
On Oct 18, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Mark Stegman <email@hidden>
wrote:
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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