Jul 08 2007
Memory Card
Now, I haven’t done too much research into this yet, but it’s been very frustrating, so it would be interesting to know if people have faced similar issues.
My pupils were on retreat this weekend at the Bright Lights Festival in London Colney. I lent them my camera so they could take pictures. Unfortunately, the total number of pictures that they could take was 41!!! No, not 141, not 40 and one very long video – 41 still images. I’m not very impressed, a bit worried, and very disappointed for them, and myself. There were loads of photo taking opportunities – I would have loved visual evidence that I managed to clamber over a ten foot high tyre wall, but you will all just have to believe me instead!
Now, I wonder if the reason for this is that on a couple of occasions I have chosen to tick the box “delete when uploaded” on iPhotos or on the Adobe equivalent. And I noticed on one occasion when I was uploading photos, that I seemed to have uploaded a whole load of photos that I had previously deleted. Which makes me suspect that the images or videos may still be somewhere on my memory card, but I cannot access them to delete them.
I haven’t managed to have a look at the card via the computer yet, but on first reading, does anyone have any suggestions? Help!!! Thanks.
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The card seems to only have the 41 photos on it when I look on the computer. Each image is between 1.9 Mb and 3.1 Mb. Does that seem like the right size?
On my PC side, I discovered that there were at least 140 images and videos in a folder called “501″, I think in a “trash” file. I couldn’t get to them on my camera, yet they were clogging up my camera and stopped my students and I from taking more images. One to watch out for – I think this happened because I tried to delete the images using the “click if you want to delete the files when finished” box when downloaded. Perhaps must remember not to do that!