Searching Removable Media

Hey everyone,
I seem to be having a problem searching removable media. I open an SD card from a camera that contains a top level folder called DCIM and numerous subfolders called 100Nikon, 101Nikon, and on down the line for like twenty folders. Inside are various jpegs and avi's.
I wanted to do a search for the AVI's so I could copy and watch them. I found that finder was unable to find them no matter what criteria I used. I then found it was unable to find either the DCIM or the various Nikon folders either. Finder has no problem finding any of those types of items in folders on my hard drive or on my firewire hard drive, but it refuses to find anything at all on the SD card. Is this normal behavior?

Problem (finally) found and fixed!
There is apparently an issue with the application of the group policies under User Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/System/Removable Storage Access on Windows 8.
These policies basically restrict access to removable storage like SD cards and USB sticks (i.e. policies enabled = access restricted).
If they are simply enabled or disabled once by a single group policy, there is no issue.
However, if they are e.g. enabled by an overall domain standards policy (i.e. access restricted) and then disabled by a separate corporate policy overrides policy (i.e. access unrestricted) for specific users - as good practices dictate -, there is an issue
on Windows 8 (not Windows 7 or Windows XP).
That means if one wishes to restrict removable storage access overall on Windows 8, but still allow it for specific users, one should not enable these policies overall (access restricted) and disable them for specific users (access unrestricted) - which requires
2 separate group policy objects -, but rather leave these policies disabled overall (access unrestricted) and only enable them for those users whose removable storage access should be restricted (access restricted), even if they are the rule and not the exception
- which only require 1 single group policy object, since these policies are already disabled (technically "not configured") by default.
Hope this makes sense and someone at Microsoft reads this!
Thank you everyone anyway!

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after looking on many pages for a solution i always found the same workarounds - but for me deleting the device is no option because you aren't allowed to delete devices without administrative rights. Also I can't expect that our users always have to reinstall
the device.
So i analyzed whats going on in the registry when the key "Deny_All" for blocking RemovableStorageAccess is set to 1 - with the running of gpupdate i realized that Windows is writing a registry key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\Device\
named "security". The problem is that windows doesn't delete this key after setting the key "Deny_All" back to 0. Only sometimes it will be deleted, for example when you apply the policy for blocking devices and reverse this setting immediatly without a restart
of windows.
I made a little script which I integrated in the user-gpo (as logon script) for granting access to the removable storage devices:
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    For Each sKeyToo In aSubToo
        oReg.deleteValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sPath & "\" & sKey & "\" & sKeyToo , "Security"
        if Err.Number<>0 then
            Err.Clear
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Next
'****SCRIPT END****
The policy for giving access to removable storage looks like this now:
- a logon script is executed which searches for all "security"-keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE\ and deletes them
- the setting "All Removable Storage classes: Deny all access" ist set to "Disabled"
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