On Monday 30 June 2003 09:38 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:28:43 +1000 > > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:05, Todd Slater wrote: > > > A colleague has a g4 with cf card. She usually uses the usb > > > connection to get pics to her windoze machine; today she came to me > > > and said they wouldn't download--got some message like there were > > > too many. She has plenty of hd space. Since the pics are on cf, I > > > figured I'd copy them to my linux box with a cf reader. After > > > copying, the files were 0 size and I just had the empty dcim > > > directory. I tried again and the system froze! I was able to see > > > several subfolders in dcim, some of which had images; one had > > > something else. I'm not exactly excited about trying this > > > again--does canon do something weird to format cf cards, or was this > > > just a fluke? The card is a kingston. I've never had this happen > > > with my lexar cf card. > > > > > > Todd > > > > I'd venture to say that something is flaky with the card's file > > system. Is there a means by which y'all can just format it and try > > again before you cause harm to the computer? > > I was afraid of a flaky/corrupted fs. I suppose we can reformat, but > she's got 300+ pictures from her vacation! > I had this happen to me on my S400. It only happened once, but I had a bunch of pictures with zero file size after the transfer, even though I could view the pictures on the camera's preview screen. I solved the problem by hooking up the camera to a windows box and transferring them through the camera driver provided by Canon instead of using the card reader. After getting the pics off, I reformatted the card and have not had a problem since.
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