Just as soon as Apple acknowleges that it has fixed the problem, and what release of the Mac Operating System has the fix, then we can recommend to those who have the proper OS to revert to their normal procedures. Some cards are more vurnable to damage, but exceeding proper voltages on any card is not advised. The potential to damage the card started with Leopard and conincided with Apple stating that they changed their electrical interface to card readers. The reason we recommebnd just pulling the card from the card reader on a Mac is to protect the card from damage, electrical damage. This insures that the file system, on the card, is not fragmented, which is very important to being able to record to the card at very high throughput, If one is writing small files to the card, it does not really matter if the card is fragmented or not. Our recommended workflow is to copy the files, then reformat the CompactFlash card in the nanoFlash. We will have to investigate this, and then resolve the problem. We do not know why some are affected this problem, unwanted files on the cards, and others are not. So, it is a bit impractical to say this is the only fix, in my opinion. But, that is a Mac workflow to eject drives and cards. Both of these eject issues have the same recommendation from Convergent, which is just don't eject the card. These files aren't bad or wrong, per se, the Nano just isn't playing nice with them. The other issue is (that I have experienced) is that the Mac writes hidden indexing files when you eject a disk. One is that there are certain number of limited brands of cards which are fried when ejected from a Mac desktop. But, Mac compatibility is an obvious issue which should be fixed on Convergent's end, otherwise people will still have issues.īy the way, I think there are two separate issues at play here. It is rare for me to need that to happen. I had a random situation where I needed to play back out of the Nano. That said, I don't know if this problem is that much of an issue for me. (keep it simple, stupid!) is something I try and live by! Adding more software, gear, whatever is sometimes necessary but not always a good idea. I don't think it is an acceptable solution to have to buy more gear (PC or a Nexto) to get one piece of gear (Nano) to work in the field. however, given the large use of Mac computers in the field (90% of the producers I work with use Mac instead of PC) these workarounds are impractical.
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