• Welcome to the Lightroom Queen Forums! We're a friendly bunch, so please feel free to register and join in the conversation. If you're not familiar with forums, you'll find step by step instructions on how to post your first thread under Help at the bottom of the page. You're also welcome to download our free Lightroom Quick Start eBooks and explore our other FAQ resources.
  • Stop struggling with Lightroom! There's no need to spend hours hunting for the answers to your Lightroom Classic questions. All the information you need is in Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ!

    To help you get started, there's a series of easy tutorials to guide you through a simple workflow. As you grow in confidence, the book switches to a conversational FAQ format, so you can quickly find answers to advanced questions. And better still, the eBooks are updated for every release, so it's always up to date.

CF Express - No Eject Card

Status
Not open for further replies.
markstothard

markstothard

Practice-lead Visual Researcher
Premium Classic Member
Premium Cloud Member
Joined
May 20, 2011
Messages
134
Location
London
Lightroom Experience
Advanced
Lightroom Version
Classic
Lightroom Version Number
10.2
Operating System
  1. macOS 11 Big Sur
Unless I'm having a funny 5 minutes, which is more regular as I get older :)

LRC 10.2, import module, when importing from CF express card (SanDisk Extreme PRO 128GB CF Express Card Type B), I don't have the eject card check box. When using an SD card I do have the check eject box.

I'm using a Sandisk external card reader and shoot Nikon Z6ii and Z7ii.

Is it me, or does anyone else have this? Thank you

eject.jpg
 

Attachments

  • Screenshot 2021-04-17 at 19.35.00.png
    Screenshot 2021-04-17 at 19.35.00.png
    41 KB · Views: 105
Solution
Jim Wilde
Everybody has that with CfExpress card readers at the moment. They present themselves to the operating system as removeable hard drives, not memory cards, so Lightroom sees them that way as well. As well as the lack of the eject option, the bigger problem is that the Add and Move options, which are normally disabled for memory cards, are both active and selectable....which presents the risk of the user inadvertently adding the images from the card, and then wondering why the images are reported as missing when the card is manually ejected.

It's been reported to both Adobe and Sandisk, but I'm not holding my breath on a fix until some folks start losing data.
Sort by date Sort by votes
Everybody has that with CfExpress card readers at the moment. They present themselves to the operating system as removeable hard drives, not memory cards, so Lightroom sees them that way as well. As well as the lack of the eject option, the bigger problem is that the Add and Move options, which are normally disabled for memory cards, are both active and selectable....which presents the risk of the user inadvertently adding the images from the card, and then wondering why the images are reported as missing when the card is manually ejected.

It's been reported to both Adobe and Sandisk, but I'm not holding my breath on a fix until some folks start losing data.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
Thank you Jim !

I’m so pleased I wasn’t having another funny moment.

stay safe.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Jim Wilde said:
Everybody has that with CfExpress card readers at the moment. They present themselves to the operating system as removeable hard drives, not memory cards, so Lightroom sees them that way as well. As well as the lack of the eject option, the bigger problem is that the Add and Move options, which are normally disabled for memory cards, are both active and selectable....which presents the risk of the user inadvertently adding the images from the card, and then wondering why the images are reported as missing when the card is manually ejected.

It's been reported to both Adobe and Sandisk, but I'm not holding my breath on a fix until some folks start losing data.
Click to expand...
So the problem is with the software, not the hardware?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
gYab61zH said:
So the problem is with the software, not the hardware?
Click to expand...
My understanding is that it's the chipset used in the card reader, which for optimum performance reasons presents the CfExpress card to the filesystem as a hard drive.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top