"No Preview available" on s230

[coolraymo]

I have an s230, and every once in a while when I try to download a picture I get a No preview available message . The small thumbnail is there , but I can't open it. I'm using a 512 MB card, too big maybe? Does anyone elase have this problem? Any help is much appreciated . I've lost some nice pictures this way. Thanks Ray

[Jon]

Does this happen once, and the next picture goes on fine, or, once it happens do you need to just give up and start over with a new card? Does it consistently happen with about the same number (within 10-20) of pictures on the card, or can it happen at any time? Have you tried looking at the card with a file recovery utility? Do you have a second card you can try?

I don't think the card would be "too big". It might be bad, but not too big.

[coolraymo]

It just seema to happen at random. I've used other cards , and the same thing. I'm using my s230 straight into my pc using the scanner and camera wizard, trying to keep it simple because I don't care for the software canon gives you. I haven't tried a card reader, Maybe it would be different. But I'm working on a theory that it might have something to do with the auto rotate function, because I turned it off, and I haven't had the problem yet, Time will tell. Thanks for anyones help, Ray

[Jon]

Try, if it recurs, keeping track of how much of the card you've used. Also, are you re-formatting between re-uses of the card? Just deleting files sometimes seems to cause problems when the camera goes to write new ones out.

[home4sale2]

Perhaps, this might help. Windows seems to be thinking that your file is in use. In my case, the files I could not copy were being used for folder preview (as one of the contributors here points out). Change the folder preview to a different file to remove the lock Windows has on the file (under folder, right click on properties, customize, folder pictures, choose picture...). You can always change it back (although I have not tried that, it should work because in theory the preview should not be causing this issue). Hope this helps, Sunil