Lexar ate my Mac...

Al Gomas

I borrowed a 2gig card from a friend which turned out to be one of the buggy cards unfriendly to the Canon Rebel XT.
When I attempted to download photos into my Mac, it crashed repeatedly, even when I used the Lexar Image Rescue software.
It has affected the database and now when I try to rate or label a file, I get warning messages like this one:
"Labels and ratings are stored in XMP Metadata. If a file has no way to store XMP, they be stored in cache only."

I tried to reset Bridge to default settings to restore the lost functionality and got this message:
"There was a problem with the database and ".loptions" was not updated correctly. This may affect searches."

Any help??? http://www.dgrin.com/images/smilies/ne_nau.gif

DavidTO

Sounds like the XMP files are corrupt. Try deleting all of them that are from the bad card.

Aaron Wilson

hmmm
WOW a mac can crash!! they must be using microsoft for some coding!! lol... Sorry being a pc person all my mac friends say a mac will stop or crash when he** freezes over.

pathfinder

MACs can crash - Mine does some time

Maybe 1/50th as often as my XP boxes though.

Sam

I looked into buying a MAC, but decided against it. I was informed I would need to sign a non-disclosure agreement with severe financial penalties if I reviled any of the MAC secrets of the inner sanctum. Also I thought the requirement to go to a MAC retreat in the desert for two weeks was a little strange. I’m not saying anything about a cult, but the sales people at the MAC store all seemed to have a pasted on smile and a fanatical vacant look in their eyes, that down right frightened me.

Think I’ll stick with the other brand, thank you.

Sam

DavidTO

Aaron Wilson wrote:

WOW a mac can crash!! they must be using microsoft for some coding!! lol... Sorry being a pc person all my mac friends say a mac will stop or crash when he** freezes over.

We'll have to see what Al says, but I doubt that the Mac itself crashed. Most likely it was only Bridge. Applications do crash, but I don't remember the last time the OS crashed. It's protected and all that.

Al Gomas

My Mac crashes with regularity. I have many hours logged on Apple Care...The local Apple Store replaced my defective Apple ram that was causing something called a kernel panic which made the fans sound like a plane taking off...
This time though, the culprit is the Lexar card. It locked/froze/hung my camera and it did the same to my Mac. I had to physically switch the damn thing off.
Tomorrow I am off the Apple Store to buy the $100 Apple Procare service pack which entitles me to special Apple Love whenever I have a sour Apple Problem...I intend to erase/reformat the hard drive and do fresh installs of the OS and all my other software.

DavidTO wrote:

We'll have to see what Al says, but I doubt that the Mac itself crashed. Most likely it was only Bridge. Applications do crash, but I don't remember the last time the OS crashed. It's protected and all that.

marlof

DavidTO wrote:

I don't remember the last time the OS crashed.

You can't remember you've seen a kernel panic screen? Man, your Mac is way better than mine.

DavidTO

marlof wrote:

You can't remember you've seen a kernel panic screen? Man, your Mac is way better than mine.

Oh, I've seen it. It's just been a LOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG time since I've seen it. And the last time I did, it was bad RAM.

DavidTO

marlof wrote:

You can't remember you've seen a kernel panic screen? Man, your Mac is way better than mine.

Marlo, I would say that if you're experiencing kernel panics that there is something wrong. This is not normal behavior. Wrong as in: you could fix it, either by troubleshooting the software, the hard drive directory or other hardware. No one on Tiger should be getting kernel panics. They are very very few and far between. I wouldn't put up with it, but find the source of the problem.

marlof

DavidTO wrote:

Marlo, I would say that if you're experiencing kernel panics that there is something wrong. This is not normal behavior. Wrong as in: you could fix it, either by troubleshooting the software, the hard drive directory or other hardware. No one on Tiger should be getting kernel panics. They are very very few and far between. I wouldn't put up with it, but find the source of the problem.

Oh, if I experience them, I do hunt for and find the solution. Just as I find the solution when I experience a BSOD on my windows box. All I want to say is that I do see that bloody screen sometimes (usually caused by badly written software, sometimes even when it is an Apple provided update....), and I do have to troubleshoot my user friendly machine.

luke_church

DavidTO wrote:

Oh, I've seen it. It's just been a LOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG time since I've seen it. And the last time I did, it was bad RAM.

, even your kernel panic screen is cuddly and explanatory, mine usually has splays of nasty memory addresses, messages about core-dumps and such things. You don't get the explanation until you reboot.

(Though this might be as I run XP in debug mode)

Seriously though, you really shouldn't be seeing thing kind of message unless you have hardware problems, the only non-hardware cause of this on an XP Box that I've seen sufficently recently that I can remember is faulty graphics drivers.

Luke

dj_pshooter

I've gotten kernel panics but not as often as my dell box, try 20 cases of BSOD syndrome. MACs are deceptible to spyware more than PCs but less deceptible to viruses by far. 200 known compared to 1,000 times that for PC's. PCs for games, MSN, and office, Mac for the multimedia production.