To get rid of the "disk not readable by this computer" you need to change how it connects via USB. Plug it in, pull down the notifications, select USB Connection and change it to USB Mass Storage. Hit ok, then back out. You may need to unplug and plug it back in. Then it should mount as a drive.
MBP here, too, and getting my X tomorrow. Somehow it's a relief to know there are some Mac people with android phones!
With the X plugged in and in Mass Storage mode (phone not recognized yet) i switched to Charge Only mode, hit OK then went back and changed back to USB Mass Storage Mode and voila! No Name drive shows up on my mac...hope this helps!
I'm having the same problem. I have photos I'd like to put onto iphoto, but when I attach the USB (now on USB Mass Storage, but I also tried the suggestion to put it onto charge only, then switch back), the "no name" phone shows up on the list but it is empty. When I look at my camera roll/gallery on the phone, it is empty. When I unplug the USB, the photos are there. Please help?
thanks
I too am having issues in getting the photos off the DroidX and copied into iPhoto.
When I use the USB to connect my MBP to the Droid X, I do set the USB to mass storage.
iPhoto does launch, it sees a disk 'no name' but it has no photos. So iPhoto can not sync the photos.
In the finder I do see the dcim folder and in that I see a camera folder. In that folder I see my pics that I want to pull over into iPhoto.
I know that I can use the finder and copy the pics this way, but it should be easier than this.
Am I missing a key step?
Thanks
Stephen
Stephen, you are not doing anything wrong. In fact, as of a week or so ago, you use to be able to plug your X in to your mac, open iPhoto and it would show the DX as a camera and display all of your phones photos, and all you would have to do was push 'import photos' on iphoto just like you would with a normal camera. That all changed when Apple pushed out the last operating system update. Do you remember downloading that recently? I think it was like a week ago or so. I started a thread about this issue on another site and it seems everyone who installed the last update on their apple computers, can no longer have iphoto recognize photos on their DX. So far, the only way around it is to just manually drag them in from your DX camera folder, and then into iphoto. I can't help but think Apple probably did it on purpose just to make non-iPhones harder to use with a Mac haha. A-holes.
Thanks,
Yes I did do an update not all that long ago. I am on 10.6.5.
I will follow this tread to see if any better work arounds or fixes show up.
If you could let me know the other site and thread that you have on this topic that would be nice.
At lest it is not me doing something....
Thanks,
Stephen
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