MacBook Pro and ExpressCard 12 in 1 Adapter Trouble
I bought a Datafab Expresscard 12 in 1 adapter the other day. The main purpose of this was to write MP3 tracks to a SD card (my car's stereo accepts SD cards in FAT/16 & FAT32 formats).
So I insert the ExpressCard, and then insert the SD card into the ExpressCard. My MBP instantly mounts the SD card as a drive on my desktop. (When I open the SD card it has no contents, perfect!) Now I open iTunes and select a playlist, I drag all 111 songs onto the SD card. I wait a moment as it transfers the songs and then I open the SD card to validate, but it only contains only 85 songs.
I erase those songs from the SD card to try again, but it transfers less songs than previously. And so on....
I open Disk Utility and Erase the SD card and choose the Volume Format "FAT16." I attempt the same things as above with the same results. If I switch to the Volume Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), I can get all 111 songs, but my stereo does not accept that format.
My SD card is a 512 MB card (disk utility shows its actual capacity to be 484.5 MB), and my playlist of 111 songs is only 418.4 MB. I really do not understand this issue.
Thanks for your help.
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