o/PARASHOOT tries to determine if an external storage medium is a card by some very simple rules. All media where the filesystem is UDF, ExFAT, FAT32 or FAT16 is considered a card. Special detection has been implemented for RED, Blackmagic and AJA cards formatted as HFS+ (MacOS Extended). All other media is ignored by default.

Please contact our support team with as much information as possible about the card, its content and the reader you use. Please also include the output of the following two terminal commands:

Sometimes one of your disks might be wrongfully detected as cards. Most of the time this is an ExFAT formatted backup or shuttle drive. While, due to the missing journaling feature, we would not recommend using that file system for backups, sometimes you have no choice. Here is how to ignore such disks in o/PARASHOOT:

To ignore a disk in ParaShoot you can create a hidden file called .no_card in its root folder. You can use the terminal to do this:

o/PARASHOOT version 2 now conveniently allows to do ignore disks in the new user interface:

This will create the .no_card file for you.

This happens when your backup or transport drive is formatted ExFAT, FAT32, FAT16 or UDF, the filesystems treated as cards (see above). A proper backup RAID on a journaled filesystem is never detected as a card; ExFAT in particular is a poor choice for backups since it has no journaling. When such a drive is detected, marking it with .no_card (the Ignore action above) is what moves it into Ignored disks. That is expected and harmless. A configured backup destination is hidden from these lists automatically while it is connected and matched. See Backup destinations for the full picture.