Unlikely to be the cards if you are getting exactly the same error on all
three. My default position is to blame Adobe, which seems to have a more than
50% success rate. For hardware problems, I would look at the card reader.
> On 22/02/2024 00:54 GMT John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> I spent today doing some maintenance on my photography - making sure I
> have all of my images copied off of the memory cards onto the computer &
> batch renaming by Camera Type & Sequence Number ... so that IMGP5432
> from the K-2 becomes K3-05432
>
> Part of the reason for this is the default for Pentax Raw files is
> "IMGP"nnnn and a couple of my cameras have rolled over past 9999 and the
> K-1 numbering was reset when I had to send it in for repair after I fell
> & yanked the screen off the back.
>
> So it's K10D-1nnnn, K20D-0nnnn, K-3-0nnnn & K-1-1nnnn ... I pretty much
> kept up with it WHILE I was downloading images from the camera up until
> Covid (when I got lazy and sometimes wouldn't download the images for
> months after I took them)
>
> ANYWAY - The K-3 has been giving me fits downloading images today. Adobe
> Bridge "get media" seems to fail after pulling down about 8 images. I'm
> having the same problem directly copying from the card to the computer -
> 8 images & an error.
>
> When the error comes Windoze says the DCIM folder is empty & can't even
> see the card to eject it. If I just pull the card reader out & plug it
> in again the sub-folders are still there in DCIM and I can go into the
> sub-folder and copy images manually ... but if I select more than 8 at a
> time it's going to have the same error copying.
>
> If I just select 8 images they seem to copy fine and then I can select 8
> more and they'll copy, but rarely works for a third batch of 8. Repeat
> remove & reinsert & select the next 8 ...
>
> I only had the problem with the K-3 cards - 2-32GB Sandisk Extreme SDHC
> and 1-32GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC.
>
> I'm pretty sure I only lost a single image to corruption. Sucks, but at
> least it's not worse. I copied all the images over to my file server.
>
> I don't know if it's the camera, the cards, the card reader or the
> computer. I hope it's not the computer because it's Windows 7 &
> Photoshop CS6 Extended (which I don't think will run on Windoze 10 &
> Windoze 10 definitely would not install on this computer (I shall not
> repeat my previous rant about the attempt to install Windows 10 ...)
>
> I'll shut the Photoshop computer down tomorrow, open it up & give it a
> good cleaning inside & see where we go from here.
>
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