02-07-2008, 05:29 AM
I have one of those Lacie "Carte Orange" 8GB flash drives: little slabs with orange around the outside, and the USB connector is on a short cable. It has been in constant use for almost two-and-a-half years without issue... From the start, I reformatted it as HFS+.
Now I just bought a new 16GB flash drive that looks more conventional, just a little flat plastic stick with a retractable USB connector. (It cost less than half of what the first Lacie cost; around $65 delivered, and the Lacie was $150; I bought a second one six months later and it was about $100). I reformatted it as HFS+ when I first connected it as well.
Here's the weird thing: the Lacies never cause a ruckus; they just quietly mount on the desktop. The new 16 gig drive, on every machine that's configured that way, causes iPhoto to jump in and scan the damn thing for photos to download! Since I only use all of these for things like archives of all the Software Updates from the last two years, I really don't need iPhoto popping open every time like that...
So why does the new one do that, while the old ones don't? Is there anything else I can do to attempt to convince the OS that the new drive is NOT a camera memory card? This just seems very odd to me...
One thought I had, was that the Lacies both mount with the orange disk icons that any USB or FireWire external hard drive would display, while the new one just shows the generic white icon like a memory card. What determines the difference, especially when they're both just solid-state flash memory?
Thoughts?
Now I just bought a new 16GB flash drive that looks more conventional, just a little flat plastic stick with a retractable USB connector. (It cost less than half of what the first Lacie cost; around $65 delivered, and the Lacie was $150; I bought a second one six months later and it was about $100). I reformatted it as HFS+ when I first connected it as well.
Here's the weird thing: the Lacies never cause a ruckus; they just quietly mount on the desktop. The new 16 gig drive, on every machine that's configured that way, causes iPhoto to jump in and scan the damn thing for photos to download! Since I only use all of these for things like archives of all the Software Updates from the last two years, I really don't need iPhoto popping open every time like that...
So why does the new one do that, while the old ones don't? Is there anything else I can do to attempt to convince the OS that the new drive is NOT a camera memory card? This just seems very odd to me...
One thought I had, was that the Lacies both mount with the orange disk icons that any USB or FireWire external hard drive would display, while the new one just shows the generic white icon like a memory card. What determines the difference, especially when they're both just solid-state flash memory?
Thoughts?
