[austeros]

My mother has a hp digital camera which she likes to use with iPhoto. Problem is, after she take the pictures, when she trys to load them it says PC on the screen, and then OSX wont recognize the card, and iphoto wont initialize. Booting to 9, and manually trasfering works, but it is such a pain. never used to have this problem with the old 8 meg card, but the new one (either 128/256 im not sure) does all the time. kicker is, i just checked the thing after the last time i was home, and it was working with iphoto.

Has anyone had a similar problem, or have an idea for a solution? TIA

[Helvetica Neue]

Never had such a problem. There have been some instances reported, however, of CF cards misbehaving on OS X (not mounting properly, slow mounting etc), which has usually been linked to the cards themselves.

First of all, I would reformat the card, but you shouldn't format a CF card from your Mac - use the format function that exists on the camera.