Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc - There are several programs that can recover damaged cards. Here is one: http://www.winutils.net/ You do have to reformat the card after you have recovered the photos. Do it in the camera only. I reformat mine every time I finish downloading the photos. I have 3 128 MB SD cards and they have never failed. I have a couple of 128 MB Compact Flash cards for my Nikon 990 that have failed and that I have recovered with the Digital Photo Recover program. That was before I learned to format the cards in the camera and was formatting them on the computer - a no no! Hope this helps. Tina At 10:40 PM 3/15/2003 -0800, you wrote: >I love the digilux 1 - it is a great fashion statement, and can take a >good picture once in a while (assuming I don't get in its way). But twice >now I have had a problem that I cannot tolerate, and I do not know if it >is me, my camera, the medium, or just bad luck. > >I took about 50 shots the other day, came home and prepared to download >the pics to my PowerBook. Nothing happened. I unplugged the USB cable, put >the camera in 'play' mode and a message appears indicating that the memory >card has to be formatted. I tried half a dozen incantations and spells, >nothing good came of it. I lost the pics. The Secure Digital card is a >128MB SanDisk, nearly new, and has been working fine for a couple of >months. Why should it go bad? This is the second time this has happened, >on the second card. Do these expensive little cards go bad? I find that >hard to believe. Do they have to be formatted periodically? This is worse >than opening the back of the camera before rewinding the film! UGGHH! > >Advice, ideas or general commiseration appreciated, >- marc > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com photos available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html