Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hugh, You use a software program to download your images to some location on your hard drive. But for that to happen the operating system must be able to see the card and reader as a read/write drive. If the card reader never recognizes the card neither will the operating system. Doesn't matter what programs you are using or whether it is a Mac or Windows machine or Unix server or whatever. I had the same problem as Howard did. Same card and I use a Mac. What I do is look at the drive (card and reader) in CS2 Bridge. I may delete stuff and edit right off the card. I then copy my image files to a new directory on an external, large hard drive. My problem was an incompatability problem between that Ultra II card and the reader. When I changed readers everything was fine. Don't know what happened at your friends house. Some camera software may clean up the card after downloading. In your friends computer the software may have forgotten to download or put it in some obscure directory and then deleted everything. It's my feeling that the SanDisk Ultra II card may have a little built in fault making it not compatible with every reader. In my case the one reader did not recognize the Ultra II but an Extreme III works just fine. It may be something as simple as the impedance of an I/O port on the card a little too high. Len On Jan 21, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Hugh Thompson wrote: > Howard - I think it depends on what application is being used. I > use Aperture, and never have a problem, not did I before, using the > same card, and iPhoto. > > Recently however, I had some lovely shots, and visited my friend > who has a PC, he just wanted to look at the images on his computer, > could not get a download, what is more, the images disappeared from > the card ...... poof! > > In your case, I guess there is no alternative but to use a > different card, or buy a Mac! > > Hugh > > On 21-Jan-07, at 9:12 AM, Howard Cummer wrote: > >> Dear Luggers, >> My M8 and me, we are getting on quite well. I'm having more >> trouble wrestling with Capture One LE to make sense out of RAW and >> turning to Silky Pix as being easier and more intuitive. One >> puzzle which has cropped up is that RAW or JPEG photos recorded on >> San Disk Ultra II cards with 2 GB capacity by the M8 won't read on >> my card reader. When this first happened I thought the card was >> defective and took it back to my photo dealer and exchanged it. >> Same thing happened with the replacement. I can download images >> from the camera recorded on the 2 GB card by plugging in the >> camera so the recording is okay - it is just the playback via card >> reader which doesn't work. Tried another card reader - same story >> - so it doesn't seem to be the reader. All my other SD cards of >> various brands are 1 GB and all work fine - reading through the >> USB 2.0 reader. Anyone else having this experience? >> Any ideas about overcoming this reluctance to read? >> Cheers >> Howard (off to India in the morning) >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information