Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Shoot
That's a pun - the title of this post. I got a wonderful new camera for Christmas from my son. He seems to have taken on the role of being my technical guardian angel, which is a lovely role, I must say (TiVo, printer, computer, camera . . .). So I bought a great big 2gb card for the camera yesterday and went to town this afternoon, shooting pictures of the slightly-more-than-one-hundred jewelry items that I've made in the last months. The pictures looked pretty good and I even cropped a few in camera (one of the Coolpix S51's nifty features). Then I came up to download them to my computer. Funny blippy noise ensued followed by "disk in drive h: needs to be formatted." I tried to copy the photos to the internal memory on the camera, but to no avail. Mind you - neither the camera nor the paperwork with the disk said ANYthing about needing to format the disk before using it - and the new 1gb that I used yesterday didn't require any formatting. Very frustrating. This is me pouting.
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| posted by jau at 6:44 PM
ligneus — at 10:00 AM, January 02, 2008:
jau — at 12:48 PM, January 02, 2008:
| posted by jau at 6:44 PM
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ligneus — at 10:00 AM, January 02, 2008:
On my Nikon there are two buttons for formatting/deleting which you hold down until 'format' comes up on the window, you then press them again and it's done. I assume your model is much the same.
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jau — at 12:48 PM, January 02, 2008:
Thanks, Dad. I'll try this when I get home. I'll be very grateful if that's all it is!
Ligneus, I'm afraid formatting and deleting aren't the problem - they were all too easy to do, thus unfortunately resulting in a wiped-clean card. I need the card reader to *read* the card which it hasn't done yet.
Ligneus, I'm afraid formatting and deleting aren't the problem - they were all too easy to do, thus unfortunately resulting in a wiped-clean card. I need the card reader to *read* the card which it hasn't done yet.
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Open the computer icon on the desktop.
Right click on the icon for the drive, in your case H:, and select "Properties" at the bottom of the list
The Properties window will open. Click the "Customize" tab.
There is a pull down list that probably says "All Items", select "Videos and Pictures" on that list.
Also click the "Also apply this template to all subfolders" button.
Click "OK".
That should work. It did for me. Otherwise, install Windows XP on your computer. :-) With Vista, Microsoft has proven that new isn't always better.
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