Have you had any luck finding a solution to the red ! and ‘idle’ notice. I’m having the same problem and have tried the things within this thread as well. Oddly enough, I used to have no problem with L&T from SD cards (recorded on Canon VIXIA HF R10) – I was logging and transferring without any problems when I was running Tiger on my mac book pro. Recently I upgraded to Snow Leopard and now I’m running into the ! and ‘idle’ message, when I drag/drop or select from the viewer when attempting to transfer the data. Have you had any success?