Save to removable - no longer an option

[jgehrer 1]

I recently had to change the drive letter on my SD card reader and now Cura 5.5.1 will not show "save to removable drive"  Is there a way to remap cura to the new drive letter?

[Dustin 193]

It shouldn't matter at all what the drive letter is.. 
UltiMaker Cura just detects it as a removable storage device.. 

You might need to close and relaunch Cura or restart your computer?

[Slashee_the_Cow 619]

It can also help to insert then remove the card while Cura is running. The "save to removable drive" option is convenient, but it's easy enough to save to a card by using the regular "save to disk" dialog.

[jgehrer 1]

Tried both of the above solutions, neither works.  Not sure what is going on with it.

[Slashee_the_Cow 619]

I think the next diagnostic step is probably "reinstall Cura"

[GregValiant 1,488]

Cura gets the letters of any available drive from the operating system.  It doesn't talk straight to the hardware.  Somehow, your operating system isn't conveying the new drive letter.

Have you noticed if any other apps are having a problem seeing the drive?  What happens with a USB stick?

[jgehrer 1]

USB stick works, sd card reader pluged into the same port shows in explorer but not in cura. Using 5.5.1 beta btw.

[GregValiant 1,488]

I'm on Windows (and Cura 5.5) and this might be specific but here is what I found.

My built-in SD card reader has always been drive D.

I plugged in a remote multi-drive reader and when I plugged the SD card into it, it showed up as drive D.

I plugged another SD card into the built-in reader and it showed up as drive F.

Now the built in reader is always drive F.

Back to Cura, I sliced a model and when complete I plugged the SD card into the built-in reader and after 10 seconds or so it was available in Cura as drive F.

 

So even with different drive letters it appears that Cura was informed and showed the current configuration of F and E.  D seems to now be assigned to the slot in the removeable reader.  That also showed up in Cura when I stuck a card in it.

I don't know if Cura polls Windows for updates (like it does with USB printing) or if Windows is pushing information regarding how any drives are configured.

I know this wasn't much help, but I was curious myself.  If I had to guess I would guess it's a OpSys thing.