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CanonLaw
11th of February 2009 (Wed), 00:33
I have a 30D with about 9,000 shots on the shutter. I have been having some problems lately. I use an Ultra II 4GB. This is everything that happened that up until this point.

Incident 1:
I had the card about 95% full on a vacation, and when i got home, I tried creating folders on the card, to organize it, then copy the whole mess to the hard drive. I get a Windows Delayed Write Failure, or error. Ok? Reset the computer, can read the card again, and I am missing about 60 photos.

Incident 2:
Formatted card in camera, then took some more pictures. I opened a this set of pictures in Fast Stone image viewer (to look at the RAWs quickly, before going in to lightroom.) I try to delete some in Fast Stone, get Windows Delayed Write Failure again.

This time though, I noticed the pictures I took a week ago were all correctly named, IMG_9001, 9002, etc, but the ones I just shot today reset?????? They started at 0002? WTF???

I really hope this is just a card reader issue, but I don't know. Haven't had problems before with it, but I have never really tested it. I think my next step is to just test that same suspect card on a card reader I know has never failed me.
CanonLaw
11th of February 2009 (Wed), 00:38
ok, so yeah, I just reformatted it, shot some more pictures and the shot count really has started over and now it is at 200. This is really going to screw stuff up because when i import into light room I am going to have duplicate file names. Why would my camera start over???
Jon
11th of February 2009 (Wed), 10:12
Check whether your camera is set to manually reset, automatically reset, or continuously number photos with each card. Also see if the folder name is the same on the old and new photos. If you've now got folder 101CANON, the file numbering will restart, and folder 101CANON will be automatically created when you reach \100CANON\IMG_9999.
tiha
11th of February 2009 (Wed), 14:08
....I tried creating folders on the card, to organize it, then copy the whole mess to the hard drive. I get a Windows Delayed Write Failure, or error. ...
... I try to delete some in Fast Stone, get Windows Delayed Write Failure again.

I don't think that deleting and organizing files on the card is a good idea. :confused: Copy everything to the computer and then do whatever you like.
CanonLaw
11th of February 2009 (Wed), 15:07
Check whether your camera is set to manually reset, automatically reset, or continuously number photos with each card. Also see if the folder name is the same on the old and new photos. If you've now got folder 101CANON, the file numbering will restart, and folder 101CANON will be automatically created when you reach \100CANON\IMG_9999.

The camera is set to continuosly number photos, and this is what it looks like on the card.

DCIM > 231CANON > then the individual files.... even though the file names have reset to IMG_0001
CanonLaw
11th of February 2009 (Wed), 15:08
I don't think that deleting and organizing files on the card is a good idea. :confused: Copy everything to the computer and then do whatever you like.


Yeah.....not going to do that again!