I inadvertently reformatted my Eye-Fi Connect X2 card using the Disk Utility app on my iMac running OSX. Now, my Eye-Fi Center software on my Mac won't recognize the Eye-Fi card. I suspect I may have wiped out some important partition on the Eye-Fi card. Is there a way to reinitialize the Eye-Fi card so the Eye-Fi center app recognizes it again?
I'm asking here in this forum because the official Eye-Fi Support Staff no longer supports these older WiFi cards. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I'm asking here in this forum because the official Eye-Fi Support Staff no longer supports these older WiFi cards. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Posted 5 years ago
Alan Hinchcliffe, Champion
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you can reformat the card in your camera, there is nothing on the user area that is important for the operation of the eyefi card. most likely the card is not being recognised due to a non compatible or faulty card reader. did you use the supplied card reader? do you have another card reader you could try?
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Actually, I inserted the Eye-Fi card into the SD slot on my iMac and reformatted the entire card. I'm afraid I may have wiped out a special partition that had some "Media" files that are used when syncing with the Eye-Fi Center desktop app. Right now, the card as absolutely nothing on it and is formatted exFAT, Master Boot Record.
Alan Hinchcliffe, Champion
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i have sent an email to eyefi support on your behalf
Alan Hinchcliffe, Champion
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hi Dave i spoke to George an awesome tech at eyefi and tbh he thinks its most likely the router, im not sure how you feel about this suggestion as its pretty involved but see if you can keep up and if you can maybe give it a whirl.
he suggested trying your old router now you could just hook it up to your pc as a temporary fix and try the eyefi card without internet access but for a long term solution you could disable the DHCP server in you old router sets its ip address so its in the range of the new router but not clashing with other devices and on the same subnet then hook it up to the google onhub router it should then act as an additional access point and allow pass though to you onhub router. if you tell me the make and model of the old router i may be able to find a walk through for this.
he suggested trying your old router now you could just hook it up to your pc as a temporary fix and try the eyefi card without internet access but for a long term solution you could disable the DHCP server in you old router sets its ip address so its in the range of the new router but not clashing with other devices and on the same subnet then hook it up to the google onhub router it should then act as an additional access point and allow pass though to you onhub router. if you tell me the make and model of the old router i may be able to find a walk through for this.
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Alan, I actually switched back to my old Apple WiFi router late last night, giving up on the new Google OnHub router (too may dropped connections). Being back on the Apple Router I was able to initialize the EyeFi Card to use my home network and everything is working fine again. New picture files on the EyeFi card are automatically syncing with my Mac. So, George was correct in that it was an issue with the Google router.
Thanks again for all your help!
Thanks again for all your help!
Alan Hinchcliffe, Champion
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well thats a shame the new router did not work out for you, i hope you can return it and get a refund. if you are looking for a router to improve connection speed and reliability you wont go wrong with one the the asus RT-N66U or the newer version no simple ui or flashing lights im afraid just good solid wifi

