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Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?

  
 
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p.3 #1 · p.3 #1 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Yes, you really should eject before remove. The macos IO and file systems do not like it when you pull the card out without ejecting. I've had a few corrupted files and cards from doing that. Same with Linux.


Mar 07, 2024 at 04:07 AM
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Three pages, really?


Mar 07, 2024 at 07:29 AM
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p.3 #3 · p.3 #3 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Good cards are expensive, and even if there's just a 0.1% chance of it shorting out during a write and breaking it, I just do the eject, it only takes a second. I've had a USB drive brick years ago when just pulling it out (ironically, on Windows) without ejecting, which luckily was not that important.


Mar 07, 2024 at 04:34 PM
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p.3 #4 · p.3 #4 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


I always try to eject my cards before removal, but sometimes my iMac Pro refuses to allow me to eject a CFe card. Sometimes I even have to shut down my computer. I do tens to do what my computer tells me.
The most annoying thing is that when my computer goes to sleep, on waking it tells me I haven't ejected my external hard drives. Drives me crazy.



Mar 09, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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p.3 #5 · p.3 #5 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Never corrupted a SD card but did corrupt a flash drive once. Ever since then, I always eject.


Apr 15, 2024 at 02:41 PM
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p.3 #6 · p.3 #6 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Always


Apr 28, 2024 at 02:26 PM
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p.3 #7 · p.3 #7 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


I use Lightroom. I’ve set it to eject the card after it’s imported. That generally works, but not with the CF Express Cards. Anyway, when LR indicates that the images have been imported, I pull the card. If the warning comes up, I click on that.


Apr 28, 2024 at 02:45 PM
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p.3 #8 · p.3 #8 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


I do it, but have accidentally or absentmindedly don't it probably 30% of the time, and have not experience and issue, with one exception.

If you are using an EXFAT formatted disk, as one might do to share data between a Mac and a PC, it can take a VERY long time to remount if you do not eject it properly.

This might or might not be applicable to you as a convert, but hopefully my pain in figuring that out will prevent such on your end.

Edit: I read back through and saw MDisbrow's comment to the same effect.



Apr 28, 2024 at 03:01 PM
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p.3 #9 · p.3 #9 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Yes, I have always pressed eject, before removing



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p.3 #10 · p.3 #10 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Yes---external hard drives, too.


Apr 29, 2024 at 07:19 AM
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p.3 #11 · p.3 #11 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Always do. Esp plug n play devices having storage. Can never know what files are left 'open' by the app or OS in the background. Don't want it to bite me another day.


Apr 29, 2024 at 02:59 PM
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p.3 #12 · p.3 #12 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


I've always ejected on Mac and Windows any drive or SD card.


May 05, 2024 at 07:52 PM
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p.3 #13 · p.3 #13 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Been ripping cards out half a dozen times a day since making this thread, and nothing to report short of the annoying prompt


Sep 10, 2024 at 09:47 AM
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p.3 #14 · p.3 #14 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


chez wrote:
I always do it. It’s one click…no biggy.


Please define your one-click. It seems to me you have to have everything setup )al the right windows open etc) and ready to click-once to eject.... otherwise it's several clicks. Just asking



Sep 12, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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Dave_EP wrote:
Please define your one-click. It seems to me you have to have everything setup )al the right windows open etc) and ready to click-once to eject.... otherwise it's several clicks. Just asking


Ok…two clicks.



Sep 12, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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p.3 #16 · p.3 #16 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


Yes, always eject



Sep 12, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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p.3 #17 · p.3 #17 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


If you've never had an issue with it, and you are always formatting your cards afterward, why not skip the extra step?

If you've ever had an issue (I've had just one), you'll probably be more diligent about it, whether or not the early withdrawal was in fact the problem.

I'm in the second category. I probably ejected less than half the time, until I had an error that required me to reformat. (Similar to other posters, I often delay reformatting a card until I've completed post and backed up my processed files.)

The discussion seems similar to the recurrent debate over whether or when to use a protective filter on lenses. A lot of discussion but it probably won't change anyone's habits one way or the other.





Sep 14, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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p.3 #18 · p.3 #18 · Mac users: do you "eject" your memory cards?


I had a "didn't eject" near catastrophe once about 1 ˝ yrs. ago. I usually eject but didn't that time. Couldn't read my #1 backup disk (10 TB)! My #2 backup disk was OK, so a disk repair/reformat of #1fixed it, with a lot of wasted time. I have had to repair a disk once or twice before that but only that one time did I have to reformat. Once it happens to you, you tend to always eject. Now, I wince if I forget to eject - sometimes easy to do when I have multiple external drives plugged in. It obviously is not common so you can get away without ejecting first, most of the time.



Sep 15, 2024 at 09:25 AM
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