SD card reader not working on high sierra

Hi Pablo.

Have you solved your issue?

I had to downgraded my Mac Mini mid 2010 down to Mac OS Sierra in order to have the Card reader work again.

Regards, Robert

Better to start a new question. That's not the topic of this discussion. Sounds like you may have a defective card.

I can view my SD Photos in Apple Photos this will read the SD card, but will only save them to photos. I like to save my photos to back up to an external drive, so need a fix for this. My photo files are too large and expensive to save to the cloud. I would like to have access to my photos, please mac developers fix this issue.

Same here with a 2012 Mac Mini. Mounting SD Card works and SD Card Shows up as connected. Though no Files Can be Copied or Replaced. I can see the contents from the SD Card from my Nikon D5100 but I am unable to Take Pictures out or Rename them while they are inside my SD Card Slot. SD Card shows up as exFat.

You are correct in that this is an OS issue. The first thing I tried was the unplugging procedure. It did not work. Nothing else has either. I suspect there is actually a firmware issue that was likely addressed in an earlier upgrade that some of us may not have installed. I suspect our only hope rests with a bug fix by Apple.

Didn't know about Image Capture. Thanks so much to robogobo as my MacBook Pro doesn't let me transfer my photos from SD card anymore (did upgrade to High Sierra...). I hope Apple fix the issue soon. Image Capture will have to do for now, although not ideal.

At least with your model, you were able to rename the card via Disk Utility, with my 2010 Mac mini (a model many are reporting having card reader issues after installing High Sierra) Disk Utility doesn't even give me that option (unless I plug the card into an external reader, such as a USB reader or my printer's card reader).

Same issue here, on the internal drive, the minute High Sierra finished installing. Transcend SD Card, 2015 Macbook Pro.

Astonishing Apple don't comment here. So many disappointed users, and all we get from Apple?: 🤐

I'm running High Sierra on a 2010 Mac mini. I've tried just about everything suggested in this string. The most recent attempts involved resetting the NVRAM. When I did that I could at least see the internal card reader when I checked System Report. It still will not show up on my desktop with or without a card inserted. One suggestion back a few entries in this thread was to rename the SD Card (I assume the poster meant SD Card Reader) reader in Utilities. Thought I'd try that only to find that the reader does not show up in utilities. So I still can't get the internal card reader to work. Not the end of the world because an external drive connected to a USB port can be read but I have to admit it still bugs me. It should not be this hard to get a fix.

Okay, so I've had this issue too. And I've posted here before. I had a card reader that was not working so I tried a different (new) card reader and it worked. Then it suddenly stopped working as well, interestingly after I downloaded the Sierra upgrade this week. And I found another card reader that uses a USB that was reliable in the past, to no avail. Also, it was not recognizing my camera, and suddenly, after upgrading, it does. But I also used a different cord, so perhaps that was the problem. However, a different cord and different camera did not make a difference for me before. So for me it has been intermittent but very frustrating, not knowing what to expect. I will try the fix someone just mentioned and let you know how it works. Thanks.

Same issue for me ... on a Mac Mini (2010) (last model with a built-in drive), System Report says "This computer doesn't contain any Apple Internal Memory Card Readers", so I suspect this is a possible future fix? (Please, Apple?!) :-)

[Mac Mini > Hardware > Card Reader]

I'm hoping I can use a USB adapter as a workaround in the meantime... but I *love* that this OS release (10.13.3) seems to fix a number of problems I had with older software! Wonder how and why that happened? I was about to install Ubuntu Linux on my Mac Mini, but it's useful again!

Same issue here. 2010 mini. Just had to upgrade to high sierra. And bingo, lost my SD card reader like a champ.

Tried everything in this thread. nothing works. guess i'm going to go get a plug-in sd card reader. Yay!

*** Apple! Nothing but love.

You are correct. This issue is supposed to be about the internal card reader on 2010 Mac Mini not being detected by the most recent updates to High Sierra. Several external usb card readers Ive tried do work so I wish folks would quit posting about how to get these usb readers to work and stick to the issue of trying to get the internal readers to work! Apple should be able to fix this without too much trouble if they just would!

Your reply to digitalrex is helpful to some extent and I am glad that there is a video out there which might help others. My problem is a different one as I mentioned yesterday. SD card reader DOES work for me - it's just that there is glitch in working with videos in iMovie. I entered into this discussion but now realize that the better approach is for me to start a new discussion about my specific issue and will do that shortly. But thanks again for taking the time to post here.

I can see the card in the System Report, but can't mount the chip. Similarly, I can't get photos loaded into Aperture from my iPhone or Camera, and USB drives aren't working.

I had thought there was just something wrong with the jump drive I had been given until I saw the answers here and realized my chip reader was exhibiting a similar problem. What fresh **** is this?