{"id":927,"date":"2017-11-25T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devolve.net\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2017-11-25T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T17:18:25","slug":"macbook-sd-card-reader-always-in-read-only-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/macbook-sd-card-reader-always-in-read-only-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Macbook sd card reader always in read-only mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time when I insert an SD card into the slot on my mid-2014 Macbook Pro, it mounts in read-only mode and I don&#8217;t notice until I try to delete a file. When that happens, the option to &#8220;Move to Trash&#8221; is missing. After checking that the tiny sliding switch on the side is, in fact, set to the unlocked position, I consulted the Googs.<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/2166984?tstart=0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a page<\/a> suggesting that when inserting the card, pressing in the card on the side closest to me rather than the display helped. But still after several tries I couldn&#8217;t get it work. One part of that possible solution piqued my interest, though. It was the phrase &#8220;bad tolerances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a whim, I pushed the card&#8217;s lock button only one or two millimeters down towards the locked position and tried again. It worked! Wooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time when I insert an SD card into the slot on my mid-2014 Macbook Pro, it mounts in read-only mode and I don&#8217;t notice until I try to delete a file. When that happens, the option to &#8220;Move to Trash&#8221; is missing. After checking that the tiny sliding switch on the side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}