Ouch! Hey.reports of my death are premature.īut yeah, it is old. You have fallen – like some of the rest of us have – for the resurrection of a long-dead thread, as a zombie thread.

The message to which you are replying is dated Mar 9, 2013. Have you tried to format the card in your camera? On my Nikon cameras, it names the card with the camera name. I've also heard that it will render the card unusable by the camera.

I've heard I can use Disk Utility to rename, but only if I format in FAT 32. Using the usual Mac techniques (slow double-click of the icon or renaming in Get Info) does not 'stick' once the card is removed and re-inserted. I want to rename my SD cards so they show up with descriptive names instead of NO NAME. Only the camera knows how the FS on the card shall be implemented and the volume mounted. I've seen cards that were no longer accepted by certain cameras after being formatted to FAT in a Macintosh, though.Įvery camera manufacturer writes down several warnings within their manuals NOT to format sd/cf cards on a computer, BUT exclusively within the camera. Unless memory cards are already formatted with multiple partions when purchased, re-formatting the card to FAT32 or exFAT should return it into the state it was in when it was purchased. It probably depends on the camera, but all you may get is a 'Card Error' massage. However, if 'formatting' in your camera is really only erasing the contents, your camera may not be able to reformat a HFS+ formatted SD card at all. That's why rescue software can normally be used to save images from a card that has been 'formatted' in the camera. If you 'format' a memory card in your camera, most cameras will not really repartition the card, but simply erase it.

If you still want to use the card in your camera, this may not be a good idea. If you format it this way, you can use it as a storage volume for Mac OS X, but the camera needs to reformat it in order to save data down, as it see's only ExFAT, not 'HFS+ Journaled' (if you don't see it on the desktop your preferences are hiding them) Select Format: Mac OS X (HFS+ Journaled)ĥ. Sounds like the volume is read-only, probably an ExFAT partition schema which is laid down by the camera. Dick, I've already tried simple renaming without success.

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