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highland145

Lifer
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Overnighted a new pair of glasses frames last Wednesday, FedEx. Still waiting...$18.
 
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highland145

Lifer
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readfrom.net didn't have a book I wanted. I had to Amazon it.

The good, I have an ATT debit refund card with $9 on it so while not technically free, close enough.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
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Someone wanted me to transfer data from a hard drive to a SD card, I bought two just so I can get free shipping. Well BOTH cards appear to be defective. Once the file transfer starts it just stalls after a while and get tons of IO errors in dmesg. Talk about shitty luck. Worse part is I ordered from Best Buy, I could have just went in person but was working so ordered it. Now I have to go through the RMA process which is always a hassle.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Someone wanted me to transfer data from a hard drive to a SD card, I bought two just so I can get free shipping. Well BOTH cards appear to be defective. Once the file transfer starts it just stalls after a while and get tons of IO errors in dmesg. Talk about shitty luck. Worse part is I ordered from Best Buy, I could have just went in person but was working so ordered it. Now I have to go through the RMA process which is always a hassle.
You cannot take your order to the store and replace? Pretty sure I have done that. Unless you ordered from some shady third party seller.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
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You cannot take your order to the store and replace? Pretty sure I have done that. Unless you ordered from some shady third party seller.

Just went through the process and that appears to be an option, so went with that. I didn't figure I could since on the return policy page it said you couldn't. Apparently I just have to show up with the receipt so I'll try that.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
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Just went through the process and that appears to be an option, so went with that. I didn't figure I could since on the return policy page it said you couldn't. Apparently I just have to show up with the receipt so I'll try that.
You can always return them at the store and rebuy.
 
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highland145

Lifer
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You can always return them at the store and rebuy.
Years back, like 90's, friend bought a ceiling fan from Lowes. It was missing parts, maybe a restock. He returned it and bought a new one. I was like...wut...you should return it to the manufacturer. Him, eff that, it's Lowes problem. Me, dayum, that works.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Years back, like 90's, friend bought a ceiling fan from Lowes. It was missing parts, maybe a restock. He returned it and bought a new one. I was like...wut...you should return it to the manufacturer. Him, eff that, it's Lowes problem. Me, dayum, that works.
I see you found a Gizmo J thread as well...
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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You can always return them at the store and rebuy.

Their return policy said you couldn't but I tried anyway and they let me exchange it, but the 2 new ones do the exact same thing. I don't get it. Their either got a super bad batch or there is something about this particular brand/model that any of my computers don't like. Windows won't even recognize it.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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So the other more expensive brand SD card I decided to buy seems to be fine... What's weird though is the ones failing on the PC are working fine in the cameras. Going to leave my camcorder on record and just let it sit to make sure but so far so good. This is so weird. I still don't know if I'll want to trust those cards though.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Their return policy said you couldn't but I tried anyway and they let me exchange it, but the 2 new ones do the exact same thing. I don't get it. Their either got a super bad batch or there is something about this particular brand/model that any of my computers don't like. Windows won't even recognize it.
Try rufus. What brand did you buy lol
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Isin't Rufus for making Windows USB boot sticks, not sure how it applies here.

... and I just got IO errors again on the new one but this time the whole rsync job crapped out instead of just seeing dmesg errors. I wonder if it's because my sudo expired so I lost permission... this might just be a fluke. If this happens again I'll just su - as root. That's usually what I do when doing file operations anyway...
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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I guess SD cards don't do well with mass data transfers maybe? But then why would it work with the smaller cards. I pulled the cards out of my camera and I can do mass copy to those fine, it's just that they're too small for what I'm copying so I can't use those.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Err file size limit perhaps? What is the file system you format it to? Rufus can format a sd card fine.
 
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