[Leica] Cannot upgrade M8 firmware

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

I also had a temporary problem. I recently replaced my aging and 
intermittently failing card reader with what appeared to be a very 
solid little unit made by Sony. No more trouble reading. But when I 
tried to write the update software to the card, it would not write. 
Because the write-protect slider is very free on that card and once 
went "spontaneously" into the write protect position, I put it into 
and out of the camera a couple of times to be sure I knew in which 
position of the slider enabled writing. Still could not write. 
Ejected, removed, and replaced the card more than once. Finally, it 
wrote! Then the update went perfectly. I have no idea what chanced, 
what the problem was.

The only downside to the whole process was the it now reset the file 
names. I'm sure my hard drive for negatives won't like two files with 
the same name. Because in my amateurish early use of LR, I have a 
large group of files on that disk that are not in a folder, I'll 
probably have to put them in a newly created folder and go through 
the process of telling LR where they now are.

Herb

>My M8 cards work with my card reader and always have.
>
>Gene
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Cheyne" <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: lug at leica-users.org
>Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:30:27 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
>Subject: [Leica] Cannot upgrade M8 firmware
>
>Thanks, Frank.
>
>I tried the Reset function in the Menu just now.  No difference.
>
>I didn't try another computer yet.  Maybe my Mac has been set up
>badly.  I will try it on my Mac at work tomorrow.
>
>I am using 8GB SDHC cards, and also a 512MB SD card.  None are working
>in the card reader.  They all work in camera for the purpose of
>uploading images.  But I only get a desktop mountable disk using the
>M9, as the M9 has a Mass Storage disk option.  It seems the M8 does
>not, so it can only upload images when USB connected to a computer,
>not download firmware upgrade files like the connected M9 can.
>
>My two card readers are both $5 cheapies.  Even if they cannot use
>SDHC cards, they should be able to use the 512MB card.  They could
>read those cards when formatted with my Lumix, but not after being
>formatted with my Ms.
>
>Peter
>
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Herbert Kanner
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