Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had LR hang whilst downloading the pictures of my daughter's wedding from a CF card this weekend. I had to force quit Lightroom and I downloaded the pictures to a separate hard drive before trying again. The only loss was the image where it hung, I could see it on the camera lcd but could not read it using a computer. I have re-formatted the card and it appears OK....... Frank On 10 Sep, 2008, at 15:42, Alastair Firkin wrote: > The card was a new SanDisk 4GB card Extreme III: a CF card for > Helen's E3. The Leica's all have 2 GB cards. As far as nightmares > go, its up there --- its the reason I keep swearing that I'll never > do Weddings "solo", but then some hungry relative pleads, you forget > and you pay the price!!!! > > The card will not even "activate", so at the moment I cannot do > anything with it, and cannot run any rescue software etc. I'm > writing to SanDisk to see what they have to say: I just cannot > believe that it could have died half way through downloading the > images into LR. So if your download stops suddenly and LR has a > cryptic comment about the disk, you may begin to feel a very sinking > feeling. > > Cheers > > Alastair > > --- images@comporium.net wrote: > > From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New M8 firmware > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:07:46 -0400 > > At 10:35 AM 9/9/2008, you wrote: >> As long as the bloody things work: I've just had a 4G card fail at a >> wedding: lost over 50% of the images, so perhaps having smaller >> cards and lots of them might be not such a bad idea :-( > > I've been using the Transcend 4GB cards and the SanDisk 2GB cards and > in hundreds, probably thousands!, of downloads have never had a card > fail. (Knocking on wood!) I have heard about failures with Lexar > cards but have never used one of those. What brand was your card > that failed? Could you use a recovery program to get the photos > back? What a nightmare it would be to lose wedding photos! > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information