Flash card problems

[Severin Crisp]

I have recently purchased a Lexar Professional 80x 1GB Flash Card for  
my Nikon Coolpix 5700.  Main reason, apart from capacity for the .NEF  
raw photos, was the speed of internal transfer which previous cards  
lacked causing annoying waits when shooting.  I transfer to my  
computer via  a USB2 reader which gives no problems with other  
cards.  With this one, transferring either by a simple Finder drag or  
using Image Capture everything seriously hangs and only a forced  
restart gets out of it.  With Finder drags taking the files one at a  
time works, usually,  but for more than about three together it  
hangs.  Image Capture can not transfer even one image.  Does not  
matter if the reader is into a hub or directly into a port.  Same  
problem on G4 with USB2 card or G5 with native USB2.  Are these cards  
just lousy or am I missing something?  Within the camera everything  
is fine - and fast.  By way of interest, iPhoto6 still does not  
recognise the Nikon .NEF format but somewhere in the system a  
thumbnail is correctly generated and the files are identified as  
belonging to Preview.
Comments welcomed.
Severin Crisp
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