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Recently my camera CF cards stopped mounting on my Mac Pro (my 2009 one and now my new 2013 one) and my MacBook Pro. The cards still work fine in camera. I have tried two readers, different USB slots and reading directly from the camera. Any advice that might get me back up and running? All previously worked fine for several years. camera is a canon 5D Mk III. I have had some spontaneous working recently but no joy now.
Thank you : )

Chuck:
You've tried it on two running Tiger. Have you tried it on any other machines or can you? It might be that it gave up the ghost, slim but might be the case. You have tried it in all of the various USB ports on those machines, right?
I had the same problem with a Firewire card reader. Won't mount on my G5 or my wife's G4. I plan on taking it to the local Apple retailer and seeing if it will work on any of their machines. If so then I've got port problems on my macs. I think my reader got zapped.
You could take it with a card of some photos into a local dealer and give it a try on several display models.

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You've tried it on two running Tiger. Have you tried it on any other machines or can you? It might be that it gave up the ghost, slim but might be the case. You have tried it in all of the various USB ports on those machines, right?
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OK so then I tried Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but this failed as above also.
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Oh yes, I also tried rebooting my Macbook with the card inserted but this made no difference.
I have run our of ideas. All help gratefully received.
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Okay, I am making progress here now.
Using the link in my message above timestamped Dec 13, 2013 4:24 AM, I filed a tech support request describing the problem. Because they asked for details to confirm that the problem was with their product, I copied and pasted pretty much verbatim the text from my message above.
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