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SD card to laptop - Spike9726 - 11-11-2018
For whatever reason the dream mapper data is not transferring to my cell phone. I really have never used a blue tooth before. So I'm trying to get the data to may laptop. There's nothing on my laptop that looks like a reader for that little bitty SD card, and I guess I need some kind of cable to connect the 2 devices.
Any advice would be helpful.
RE: SD card to laptop - mesenteria - 11-11-2018
Laptops won't have an SD card slot to read them. They DO HAVE USB ports, though, and you can interface between your card and its resident data by using a "card reader". They cost maybe $20, You plug the reader's cord into your laptop's USB port, and then insert your card to the correct slot on the reader, of which there will be at least three different kinds of slots.
RE: SD card to laptop - Spike9726 - 11-11-2018
Card reader? Is this something I could get at Staples or Office Max?
RE: SD card to laptop - snorybob - 11-11-2018
Some laptop has an SD card reader. I've got one on mine (ASUS), you just reminded me to take the card out!
snorybob.
RE: SD card to laptop - stanleydean - 11-11-2018
You can get card readers at Staples, Office Max, WalMart, Amazon etc.
RE: SD card to laptop - Fats Drywaller - 11-11-2018
USB SD-card readers can be priced as low as $5. It looks like a USB flash-memory stick except that it has a slot for an SD card and sometimes another for a micro-SD card (popular with Raspberry Pi among others). The cheapie ones often don't pay any attention to the setting of the card's write-lock tab (they don't have a sensor for it) so the card is always unlocked when it's in one of those readers in your computer. A built-in SD-card slot in the computer should pay attention to the write-lock tab. There are many brands of USB dongle including IOGear and Targus, also I assume Sandisk, which started the whole thing. ("Secure Digital" is a silly retconned expansion of "SD" and there's nothing inherently secure about it; encryption is optional and is not used with CPAP machines.)
RE: SD card to laptop - SarcasticDave94 - 11-11-2018
(11-11-2018, 01:19 PM)Spike9726 Wrote: Card reader? Is this something I could get at Staples or Office Max?
Yes you can. Either direct in-store purchase or online.