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CF Card: Reformat? Hi, I just bought the new Canon D20. Shot a number of images on the CF card and transferred them to a notebook. I then formatted the CF card and started to take a new round of pictures only to find out that the first 10 could not be transferred to the notebook from the CF card although they show up in the camera display. The EOS transfer tells me that that there are "no images in the camera". I find this annoying, to say the least. Has anybody encountered this problem? Was I not to reformat the CF card? Thanks for any advice.
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- Bob Cournoyer Contact Bob Cournoyer Bob Cournoyer's Gallery  |
I use a Digital Rebel. I always plug the camera into the computer, download the pics, turn off camera and unplug, close the picture program then reopen to make sure all pictures are there. Then I delete the pictures from the camera and reformat the card in the camera - every time - never had any problems. When I download stuff to my laptop and then try to download from the same card/camera at home to the big computer, the automatic Canon program says I have no pictures, so I have to go to "My Pictures" and do it the long way ... never figured that part out. bob
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Michael H. Cothran |
I had a similar situation and found a quick solution: Don't re-format the card after uploading. See if it works for you.
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Douglas Chetcuti |
I had a similar problem when I deleted my CF card through a card reader connected to the PC. So now, after transferring my pictures to my PC through the Card Reader, I replace the CF into the camera and delete them from there. Never reformat your CF through the computer - always through the camera.
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Melanie Harris |
I also own a Digital Rebel. I have had the same problem before. If you are experiencing what I did, you can open up your pics. on the LCD screen then hit the menu button. Scroll through all your pics. and the ones that you are having trouble getting to delete may have been locked to save. They will have a little key icon on them. It will only show this key under the menu view of them, not just scrolling through normally. The screen willinstruct you on "unlocking" them.
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Melanie Harris |
After re-reading your question, I more clearly understand it now. Do you have the Canon ZoomBrowser software for uploading and file viewing? If so, when the camera is reading your CF card, do you get the file view screen that lets you select which pics. you upload? If you have taken a series of pics. and you only uploaded say for instance 10 of 20, then you unplug the camera and delete those you uploaded, then you shoot 10 more. Now you have 10 old and 10 new pics. When the camera is plugged in again and the file viewer comes up, you have to go to the button that says "SELECT" then the drop down bar gives you the option to select all, new, etc. If you don't select all then it will only upload the most recent. I have never skipped the file viewing part of the program although you can. I always go to the SELECT option. It shows exactly whats on your card even if the same pics have already been uploaded on other computers fifteen times. Hope this isn't talking in circles or completely off base.
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