My wife just upgraded her computer to 12.3. Clean install.
She has a new camera but cannot get the pictures from the SD card into the SuSE computer.
(Camera is so new that she never tried getting the pictures into the computer before upgrade to 12.3.)
The computer can detect the card in a USB card reader or if it’s in the camera and connected via USB,
but cannot open the card and display anything. We’ve tried several card readers and we’ve also tried connecting to my SuSE 12.2 computer.
We realize that it’s likely not the card reader but we wanted to try everything we could before posting this inquiry.
The SD card (new technology??) says on it:
Lexar Professional
SD
XC
64 GB
400x speed
There are also three small icons, the first is the number 1 inside what looks like the letter “U.”
Below that is a capital “I.”
To the right of that is a letter “C” with “10” inside it.
Can anyone help us transfer the pictures from this SD card to the computer?
Wow! You’re right. We could not read the card on wife’s SuSE 12.3 pooter. So we tried on mine (12.2). Could not even see the card with one card reader but with second card reader we got the following message when I tried to open with File Manager:
The kernel driver for this file system is not available.: Error mounting: mount: unknown file system type ‘exfat’
Questions:
I’m not familiar with exfat. Is this something that’s not Linux-compatible?
Do we have to reformat the card in the camera?
If yes, and if we have a choice, to what new format?
Formatting will mean we lose all the pictures now on the SD card (unless you have a suggestion for saving them somehow).
i had this problem in early versions of openSUSE 11.X but nowadays i don’t see this issue. Nowadays I just need to plugin the camera through usb and then “power on” the camera and it auto-mounts in Nautilus. I just need to open the card and copy the pics.
On a side note shotwell is very good in importing camera photos.
It is fast. Good when importing very large files of videos and photos from the camera.
I am a little uncertain about your comment (caution?) that “…the rpm is at a home repo, not the main distro.” Does that mean it’s not “gold” – that it’s not yet known to be stable?
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> Thanks for suggestion to find a Windows machine.
I know, I know…
> I am a little uncertain about your comment (caution?) that “…the rpm
> is at a home repo, not the main distro.” Does that mean it’s not “gold”
> – that it’s not yet known to be stable?
There are 3 or four types of repos.
There are the official ones: oss, non oss, updates (oss and non oss).
There are project repos, not exactly official, but done by the same
people doing the official ones. For example, in the wiki you can find
the list of repos for KDE/Gnome upgrades. If there is a wiki article
listing a repo, it is probably well known and reliable.
A home repo… depends. Some are where devs do experiments. Some are the
devs of some package creating a modification for testing by specific
people on a certain bugzilla - for instance, not intended for the
general public. Some are indeed intended for general use, but the repo
is not a top level one, just a user home repo…
My rule is not to use a home repo unless its owner tell us to use it, or
if I have no alternative.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I did use a Windows machine to move the pictures from the SD card. Thanks, Carlos! lol!
I will suggest to my wife that she gets the repo using the one-click link you provided. Thanks, Vazhavandan! rotfl!
Sorry that I did not find on my own the “fuse-exfat-no-longer-works” thread that Vazhavandan pointed me to. Until these recent messages answering my inquiry I had never heard of “fuse-exfat,” and I got nowhere searching “SD card” combined with various other terms.
Thanks to everyone. I will let you know how things go after my wife updates her 12.3 pooter.
On 2013-07-14 22:06, bosdad wrote:
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> My wife downloaded the fuse-exfat .rpm as advised and it worked. She was
> able to extract the photos to her computer.
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> Thanks to everyone. :shake:
Questions, please
Was that card formatted that way by the camera, or was it formatted that
way when you bought it, and the camera just used it?
In the second case, I would ask the camera to format it, and hope it
uses plain fat, to be able to open it anywhere.
In the first case, what brand is that camera?
Why would I reformat? Because…
In the wikipedia there is a description of exfat. “It is proprietary and
patent-pending”.
“Microsoft has not released the official exFAT file system
specification, and a restrictive license from Microsoft is required in
order to make and distribute exFAT implementations. Microsoft also
asserts patents on exFAT which make it impossible to re-implement its
functionality in a compatible way without violating a large percentage
of them.[13] This renders the implementation, distribution, and use of
exFAT as a part of free or open-source operating systems or of
commercial software, for which the vendors could not obtain a license
from Microsoft, not only technically difficult, but legally impossible
in countries that recognize United States software patents.”
“Some distributions of Linux have begun to include support for exFAT. It
is however, only available as a file system in user space, as it’s not
supported by the kernel.”
Well, same for ntfs, no?
But I do not like it…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
The card was first used as delivered. My wife just put it in the camera and it worked. When she tried to view the pictures on her computer she got the “exFAT” error message I described in an earlier post. Only after installing the “subchaser” .rpm could she read the files on the card on her computer.
My wife did then reformat the card in the camera. She was not given a choice of formats – the camera just did it. The reformatted card is exFAT!! Yes, same format. (I am going to have a look in the camera manual to see if there are alternative formats available. Stay tuned; I’ll let you know.)