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Mac Won't Read SD Card

Hi all,

My Mac is not reading an SD card from a digital camera. The card appears on neither the desktop nor in finder. The card works fine in my camera. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

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Was the card reader working before or did you start having issues only recently?

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In the past, it has worked fine. I'm fairly sure I was using the same SD card, too. This problem only came around recently.

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Can you clarify what model you have so we can guide you to the needed part you'll need to fix this.

Plug your systems serial number here: EveryMac - Lookup then paste the systems URL so we can see what you have.

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I'm having the same issue using my Finepix AX camera, trying to see pics from my Bushnell Trophy cam game camera. Mac Air C02HVR43DRV7

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2 days ago I faced a similar іѕѕuе, my Macbook pro stopped reading my SD cards.

I tried I tried everything and nothing worked.

Finally I managed tо fix this problem after getting help from Apple Mac Support

Follow the steps here: http://bit.ly/MacSDcard

It should solve the issue

Goodluck

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I restarted the computer and the card is now read... guess I probably should have started with this :/

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Make sure the contacts on the SD card are clean, use a CLEAN pencil eraser and lightly rub the gold contacts. If that doesn't work you might need to open it up and clean the internal contacts.

Alternatively; try another SD card

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Already did so. No change.

Have pics on THAT SD card..

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Have you restarted your computer?

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try opening the SD card on another computer. Then copy ur pics, and paste them on another NEW SD.

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Why did this work? I have no idea why just rubbing the goldie shiny bits of an SD card would make my Mac accept it. I mean... I'm not the only one, right? I didn't even use a pencil, i just casually rubbed it on my shirt and tried again. It worked though!!! I think there's something in the water, the communists are projecting vapor waves at the moon, my grandpa turned of the sports to watch anime, cats and dogs living together; mass hysteria!

Bottom Line: it worked, and I'm mad at myself about it.

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@C Smith

did you try using a pencil? apparently it works.

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