Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last week I was photographing one of those exciting things I photograph between boring bouts of astronomers and black widows, a raft of headshots. About six frames into it my trusty Leica d700 STOPPED photographing with a flashing CARD FULL error. Sweet Barking Cheese, I thought I cleared off that card. I popped another in. STILL a card full error. I reformatted the card. The headshotees rumbled uneasily. The card was still showing as full. -- ??? -- I turned it off and pulled the battery out. Waiting. People looked at me. I put the battery back in and turned the camera on. Card Full. I formatted the card again. The shotees began to get restless. Finally I switched to the backup, which was an old Leica d100, as my normal backup was out on loan to a neighborhood kid visiting Greece. I finished the whole thing with the d100. It seemed incredibly slow but the day was saved. More or less. Back at home base I investigated. The web showed nothing. I powered down the camera, upgraded the firmware, used an assortment of cards. Nothing. Looking at the last photo I'd taken, I noticed it was called LEICA_9999.jpg Could this be related to the file name? I went through the camera menus and found an entry on file naming. It said "Begin numbering folders at 999" I changed that to 001. No longer was the card full. When the image numbering gets to 9999, it rolls over into a new folder with image #0001 and keeps on going. Somehow, I'd managed to fill 999 folders with photos. So, if/when that happens to you, you know what to do. kc