I have seen many reports that Sonoma cannot read a SD Card. It doesn't show up anyplace using utilities or any other place. Is Apple working on this?? It worked fine until Sonoma came along- very frustrating!! Anyone know sa work around? It does not show so you cannot use a different program or app?? I can go yo my wife's older iMac and it works fine - before Sonoma!! Makes life tough!
iMac 27″, macOS 14.5
The SD card does not show up with a card reader - imac card reader- If you Google this problem- there are hundreds of users with the same problem. My wife's iMac One or two OP earlier reads the cards fine. My iMac read the cards fine until I upped to Sonoma!!! It is Mac problem. My express cards read fine!! I thought by now Apple would have fixed this- Bummer!!!
Thanks!!
The SD card does not show up with a card reader - imac card reader- If you Google this problem- there are hundreds of users with the same problem. My wife's iMac One or two OP earlier reads the cards fine. My iMac read the cards fine until I upped to Sonoma!!! It is Mac problem. My express cards read fine!! I thought by now Apple would have fixed this- Bummer!!!
Thanks!!
Again... Put the card in and "NOTHING"- happens !! Nothing- nada- there is no indication anything happened period- anywhere on the computer. usb works with everything!! I did mention if you go to Google, and put the headline in- There are "Hundreds of complaints that SD cards will not work with Sonoma. I think I may have read it may work in safe mode, but that would be a real pain if it did. I may investigate going back to an older iso. Sonoma has been out for a while- UUuug!! One would think Apple would have had this fixed by now!
Was able to solve the problem by turning off airplane mode on my camera, a Sony RX100 IV. My Macbook M3 (14.5) was then able to read the card and transfer photos. Still, doesn’t work with a SD-Card reader.
The object was to look at the System Report to see if the Mac was seeing your Reader.
Have you run Disk Utility's Disk First Aid on all connected drives?
In Disk Utility>View, select Show all Devices, highlight the top left entry.
Run Disk First Aid on all items in the left panel, from top down.
Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?
We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...
Using EtreCheck - Apple Community
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.
Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…
Slow iMac 2017 - Apple Community
Use the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...
Can you follow these etrecheck instructions so we can see the whole report?…
ie: I have been on a Mac for about 4 years, so I'm not familiar with everything(Old PC since the 70s). I have run Etre CheckPro- I have not done all that was listed in the way of the disk utility such as First aid- The disk view "Does Not" show the SD Card. Where to learn or how do I clean up in the Etre check the "Library/Lunch- files ?? Tis is new to me.-Thanks for this. I'm enclosing the Etre files in the Additional text as show in the process of reporting. Thanks again!!-Ron
So, it doesn't show up in Disk Utility?
Do things work in the USB ports?
Have you found a solution? I just updated for the first time to Sonoma 14.5 on my M3 Pro Macbook pro and my SD Card reader wont work any more. Such an annoying problem
In System Report>Hardware>CardReader, does it say anything like...
Built in SD Card Reader:
Vendor ID: 0x14e4
Device ID: 0x16bc
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x14e4
Subsystem ID: 0x0000
Revision: 0x0001
Link Width: x1
Link Speed: 2.5 GT/s
Sorry- I forgot- No...Any Apple utility does not show the SD card anyplace!! It just does not show period!
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Sonoma 14.5 Cannot read a SD card
