Thanks Juan. It was the switch. I keep forgetting it's there. But it's
not there any more:-(. See my other message. SD SUCKS.
PAUL
On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Juan Buhler wrote:
> Not Godfrey, but two things I would try, provided the little plastic
> write protection tab is not in the lock position:
>
> -open Disk Utility (in the Applications/Utilities folder) See what it
> tells you about the card and if you can format it from there
>
> -open a shell (Terminal, also in Applications/Utilities) and look what
> is in there. Possibly, do it as superuser. It would be something like
> the following, where ">" indicates the prompt, the rest is what you'd
> type:
>
>> cd /Volumes/NO\ NAME
> ("NO NAME" is what I think memeory cards are mounted with by
> default--the name might be different and I don't have my Mac here to
> try)
>
>> su
> (this will make you superuser. You'll have to enter your admin
> password)
>
>> ls -l
> (to see what is in the card)
>
>> chmod a+rwx .
> (that will change the permissions of the local directory so anyone can
> read, write and navigate to it)
>
>> rm /Volumes/NO\ NAME/*
> (this woud remove anything in the card--careful, there's no undelete
> here)
>
>
> Note that the space in "NO NAME" needs to be 'escaped' by typing a
> backslash before it when you are in the shell. If you are not familiar
> with unix, be very careful about using the "rm" command--make sure you
> are in the right directory!
>
> This should do. Strange though that you'd end up with no permissions
> to write in that card.
>
> j
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/6/07, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I uploaded the firmware update to an SD card and installed it in the
>> camera. Now, when I go to format the car, the camera says it's locked.
>> I put the card in my Mac, and it says I don't have sufficient
>> privileges to reformat it. What can I do? Godders?
>> Paul
>>
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