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Smartdisk photobank i have formatted the smartdisk photobank as a harddrive on my mac. i cannot now copy cards to it. the software to correct this is for PC only. any ideas?

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  • tenx Apr 21, 2009

    I had the same problem, fixed though thanks to the link from amaphiyarden :-) happy girl here!

    I wouldn't recommend the device to others though. I bought it because it was relatively 'cheap' as a backup for shoots & holiday. On my other computer it often didn't work because the computer didn't recognize the device 9 out of 10 times. Though now, on my new computer, it works perfectly.. if only I didn't came across this new problem...

    Not exactly what I expected when I bought it...

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Negitive... I had the same problem.  I had to borrow my friends PC to Format!  But guess what!  1 Year Later and with SmartDisk out of business I was able to go back and copy the software!  Sweet! Feel free to use it from my site: http://yardenreport.blogspot.com/

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