Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/22

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Subject: [Leica] how i exposed a roll of film to direct sunlight and got my photos back -- lesson learned
From: h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)
Date: Wed Aug 22 16:10:51 2007

This is pretty much true with flash drives too.
Wait 'til the light stops blinking!


--- Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:

> so, the other day, i was shooting with the Leica
> d200, I put the CF card in Ye Olde Macintosh and
> looked at the pix. (Oooh, lovely.) Then I closed the
> laptop and put it to sleep. The next morning I
> wanted to grab some photos and rather than booting
> up the mac and ejecting the card, I just yanked the
> CF card out. I went out and shot photos, looked at
> them on the camera screen (ooh, beautiful), then
> when I got home, stuffed the card back in the card
> reader, turned on my mac and ..... NO NEW PHOTOS.
> the computer -- and this is why it tells you do do
> this when you're on a mac -- rewrote the new FAT
> with the old one.
>  
> I was able to retrieve them with some effort using
> Get Data Back for FAT, but I wanted to let people
> know, when your macintosh says "do not remove this
> device without ejecting it" -- it's not kidding.
>  
> kc
>  
> 
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