How do I erase an sd card in my Mac desktop?

How do I erase an sd card on my mac desktop?

Open the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and erase it from there.
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    HOW CAN I erase an SD card when in my computer after uploading what I wanted  to save to computer?

    Roger: That is a perfect description of how to properly and successfully eject or unmount an SD card, but I think the question is not that, but rather how to ERASE the files on the SD card, prior to ejection.
    Freddied: I don't have a lot of experience with this, but I think it's possible to treat an SD card exactly as you would any other attached external drive. Thus, to erase what's on it, the steps I would take are this:
    1. Prior to putting the SD card in, make sure your computer's existing Trash is empty. If it isn't currently empty, then empty it.
    2. Put the SD card in.
    3. Double click its icon to see a window of its contents.
    4. Most likely (if the card is full of pictures from a camera) the files you want to erase are buried within various folders in a hierarchy created by the camera's OS. Burrow through the folders until you find the files you want to erase.
    5. Drag the unwanted files to the Trash icon on your Dock or desktop, or alternately highlight them and hit Command-Delete.
    6. Once you have found and thrown away all unwanted files, then choose "Empty Trash" from the Finder menu.
    7. THEN follow the ejection procedure described by Roger above.
    NOTE: It's probably not a good idea to just Trash and Erase everything on the SD card, because the files and folders on it are part of the hierarchy put there by the camera's OS, and if you mess it up, you'll likely have to reformat the card in your camera again.
    Also NOTE: It's actually preferable to erase pictures off an SD card within the camera, not on your computer. What I do in your situation is to NOT erase files from the SD card while it is plugged into my computer, but rather later when it's back in the camera, using the camera's menus and whatever method that model uses to erase photos.
    If, however, you are storing non-image non-camera files on your SD card, then use the steps I outlined above.
    Hope this helps.

  • HT1918 How do I erase my credit card information

    How do I erase my credit card info so I can use my iTunes card I bought from walmart

    Hello there, Noxema.
    It seems you are looking to remove your payment information from your iTunes Store account. The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great information in regards to just that:
    Change or remove your payment information from your iTunes Store account (Apple ID)
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1918
    Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
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  • How do I erase the hard drive on my mac mini with OS X lion

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    Restart with the Command and R keys held down and use the Disk Utility from there.
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    To unmount/eject the drive in Finder, scoll to the drive in the left shaded collumn of a finder window, until you locate the drive uner the heading, "devices". Then click the tiny eject icon to the right of the drive listing.

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    do not confuse moving your whole folder and library with:
    iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449

  • How can I format an SD card on my mac?  I have tried the erase thing but when I put the card into my 35mm camera it says that the card has to be formatted.

    I just purchased two new SanDisk 8gb SD cards for my trail cameras.  When I put the cards into the trail cameras, the cameras will take pictures but it won't store them on the cards.  When I put the cards into my 35mm camera the camera tells me that the cards need to be formatted.  I have went through the steps in the disk utilities and erased the cards, which I assume is the same as formatting them??  I have tried this for hours and have had no luck getting these things to work at all.  It was awful disgusting when I checked my two trail cameras the first time and found out that they had taken close to 75 pictures but the cards were empty.  When I bought my 35mm camera several years ago, I bought a couple of Kodak SD cards and used them right out of the package and never had to do any of this formatting thing.  I don't understand what is going on and could sure use some help with this.  Thanks for any information anyone can give me with this problem.  I would love to have seen what animals set my cameras off 75 times in the last few days.  Thanks again.
    Respectully
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    AFAIK cameras offer their own built-in format utility for inserted SD cards.  You should use that.  Otherwise, refer to the manual that came with your camera to determine precisely how your SD cards need to be formatted to work properly.  Personally, I'd suggest Partition Scheme: MBR, and Filesystem: FAT32.
    Try to limit the number of formats you perform on the SD cards, though, as you're reducing their lifespan.  I believe formatting causes re-writes to a portion of the SD card that has fewer read/write cycles than the rest of the card as a whole.

  • HT2534 How i can erase my credit card from apple account

    How can I change my account details, because I don" t want to have my credit card register. But if I don't put credit card is not letting me to update the app....how I do ?

    You can create an iTune and App Store account without credit card details
    1. Sign out of current Apple ID if you are sign-in to one (important)
    2. Go to App Store and select a free app
    3. Tap INSTALL APP
    4. Create New Apple ID
    5. Confirm Your Country
    6. Agree with Terms and Conditions
    7. Fill in your Apple ID and Password (you must create a new Apple ID; don't use your old Apple ID)
    8. Create and answer your secret question
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    10. Fill in Billing Address
    11. Submit application for new Apple ID
    12. Wait for verification email
    13. When email arrive, verify your account
    14. Start downloading your free apps

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    I used to be a Windows user and everytime I try to do something I knew how to do in windows I can't figure out how to do it in MAC. Can someone tell me how to create a business card or find a template to create one?
    I've tried to find the anwser everywhere and can't find it.
    Although I have some trouble sometimes I do love my MAC.
    Thanks

    It's not the computer platform that determines this, how you make business cards depends on what program you're using.
    I assume, that since you mention coming from Windows, you're used to doing this task in Word. You can do it in Word for Mac. You can probably find quite a few shareware or freeware programs on MacUpdate or VersionTracker. I've used AppleWorks & now Pages for years for this kind of stuff.
    This is the forum dedicated to the workings of the forums themselves, not for technical questions. A better place for this question would have been the forum for using the model of Mac you have.
    Another little FYI: Apple Macintosh computers are referred to as Mac (capital M, small a, small c), not MAC (which is an acronym for the Media Access Control address of a networking device).

  • How can I erase all the info on my Mac.

    Hi, my mom bought a new computer and gave me her Mac. Since she used it for a couple of years, it has all her information and stuff and this has made the mac very slow. I have a Macbook Pro for work but I want this for my house. I would like that everything is synced.
    I don't know how to erase all this information in the computer and start using it as it was new.
    I already changed my AppleID for hers, but nothing changed and there's still everything there. I looked it up in a couple of blogs and a lot of them say I should press Command + r, but when I do this, nothing happens.
    Can you help me please?
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    It depends how old the Mac is and what version of OS X you have installed.
    If you have OS X 10.7, 10.8 or 10.9, you should have a recovery partition. That means that, if you reboot (choose restart from the Apple menu), and as soon as the screen turns black, hold down cmd-R and keep those two keys held down. You should restart from the recovery partition, and see various options such as install, etc. You actually want to use Disk Utility from the Utilities menu to erase the drive, and then follow the prompts to install OS X.
    If you have 10.6 or earlier, you will not have the above option, and must find the original installation DVD and boot from it by holding down the C key on reboot. Again, use Disk Utility from the Utilities menu to erase the hard drive, then install a new system.
    However, you may be able to regain a good deal of room without doing the above. In System preferences, Accounts (or Users and Groups, depending what version of OS X you have), create a new user and set it as an administrator. Use your name and whatever short name you'd like. Now, log out, and log back in as that new user. Go back to System preferences and delete your mom's old user, using the minus sign at the bottom left. You should choose to delete all files immediately.
    This option will keep all applications that are installed, but will remove all personal files and give you a new, clean login.
    Matt

  • How can I erase and install the most recent Mac OS X?

    I have bought a new iMac and want to give my old iMac to a friend.
    Before I give it to them, I want to erase to old iMac HD and re-install Mac OS. However, it defaults back to the Maverick OS. My slow internet means it will take hours to download and then I would have to run upgrades in the AppStore and take more hours to download Yosemite and then more cycles of incremental upgrades... :-/
    How do I get my old iMac to simply install a fresh version of the latest Mac OS?
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    Neil

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  • How do I erase/Reformat a disk in a Mac Pro 3.1

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    OS 10.9.4
    Four 500 GB drives
    Whenever I use iPhoto and File Maker together (Latest versions on both), I encounter starting problems the next day). I usually reboot from the Recovery drive and use First Aid. This is good for a couple of weeks.
    This morning I could not start the system located in HD1, so I used the Recovery drive and I tried First Aid with no success.
    I downloaded a new system (10.9.4) and installed it on HD4.
    I tried again to repair HD1 and I got a message indicating that HD1 could not be repaired.
    I can't isolate HD1 to reformat it probably because the older system (10.9.4) still there.
    How do erase HD1? I am very grateful for any help you can assist me with.

    Any version of Disk Utility will attempt to Repair any disk with any data on it, EXCEPT: You cannot Repair the Volume where the currently-running Mac OS X is located, since the repair might change data Mac OS X is actively using, and cause a loss of integrity or worse yet, a crash.
    There is NO restriction of what Volumes can be Repaired based on Mac OS X versions. (Example: the Disk Utility on the 10.6 Installer/Utilities DVD can repair Volumes that have Mac OS X 10.9.4 installed on them.)
    If Any version of Disk Utility tells you a Volume cannot be repaired, you should believe that assessment. What you should NOT do, especially on a Mac that supports multiple drives, is follow their recommendation to erase that drive to return it to bootabliity. That advice is based on the old assumption that the Drive (in working condition) is the prize. Today, drives are really cheap, and any of YOUR data (not the 350,000 files of Mac OS X) that can be recovered is much more valuable than a sub-US$100 drive.

  • How do i format a memory card on my mac?

    I don't get a choice to format the sd card (actually via an adapter I plug into the USB port that holds various memory cards) - not sure if formating the sd card would actually eliminate the virus, but thought I'd try...  The card is infected with a "conficker" virus, which Sophos can't remove.  I have eliminated all the files, and there still is like 55 unviewable files. 

    Disk Utility. The same way you format any type drive on a Mac.

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