DCCCLXL. Do As I Say, Not As I Do
I've gotten into the habit of usually downloading my digital camera pictures to my hard drive for archival purposes. Not so with my wife's camera, mainly because her memory card is 4GB. Translation: it takes 500 pictures before it's filled up.
She had been taking pictures of her class for work, then went off to visit her family, with a few random other pictures in-between, such as our visit to Juan in a Million. The camera could only read the most recent pictures from her family-visiting trip.
Today we couldn't get the pictures off the card. Plugged the card into her computer, and mine, Vista said it was corrupted. Plugged it into my printer (it has a memory card slot) and it caused the printer to go wacko and demand a reboot. Tried connecting to the camera directly, that couldn't help read the card either.
Long story short, had to find a program to recover those pictures. We ended up getting most of them (some were unrecoverable), and we had to pay for the "non-demo" version of the program (time was of the essence), but we got them.
Something happened, we don't know what, to that card. And it's the first time I had that problem too. When we went on our honeymoon, another couple said that at one of our ports of call, they lost all of their pictures when it went through the scanner. I've had cameras go through those things with no ill effects. However, since she could only see pictures from her recent trip, the working theory is that something happened on the way over there but not the way back.
Long story short, download the stuff off your memory cards. Anyone else have similar memory card goofiness?
She had been taking pictures of her class for work, then went off to visit her family, with a few random other pictures in-between, such as our visit to Juan in a Million. The camera could only read the most recent pictures from her family-visiting trip.
Today we couldn't get the pictures off the card. Plugged the card into her computer, and mine, Vista said it was corrupted. Plugged it into my printer (it has a memory card slot) and it caused the printer to go wacko and demand a reboot. Tried connecting to the camera directly, that couldn't help read the card either.
Long story short, had to find a program to recover those pictures. We ended up getting most of them (some were unrecoverable), and we had to pay for the "non-demo" version of the program (time was of the essence), but we got them.
Something happened, we don't know what, to that card. And it's the first time I had that problem too. When we went on our honeymoon, another couple said that at one of our ports of call, they lost all of their pictures when it went through the scanner. I've had cameras go through those things with no ill effects. However, since she could only see pictures from her recent trip, the working theory is that something happened on the way over there but not the way back.
Long story short, download the stuff off your memory cards. Anyone else have similar memory card goofiness?