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Mike - 28 Feb 2006 06:13 GMT

My wife has a Canon powershot & aSanDisk card for it. She took a bunch of
photos, put the card in her reader, looked a few (they were ok) & coipied
them to her Mac (G4, OS 9).
When she went back to look, now they are all messed up.
Any idea what cause this & how to keepo it from happening in the future?

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Mark² - 28 Feb 2006 06:18 GMT

> My wife has a Canon powershot & aSanDisk card for it. She took a
> bunch of photos, put the card in her reader, looked a few (they were
> ok) & coipied them to her Mac (G4, OS 9).
> When she went back to look, now they are all messed up.
> Any idea what cause this & how to keepo it from happening in the
> future?

"All messed up" can mean far too many things for anyone to give you a
diagnosis.

Can you describe specifically what you're seeing?

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Lionel - 28 Feb 2006 06:53 GMT

>> My wife has a Canon powershot & aSanDisk card for it. She took a
>> bunch of photos, put the card in her reader, looked a few (they were
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>
>Can you describe specifically what you're seeing?

No need - I have a fair idea what probably went wrong:
When you browse a writable disk on a Mac, it writes special HIDDEN
system files to every folder, which is probably confusing the hell out
of the camera when the card is put back in it.

Mike: Your best bet is to:
(1) plug the card into a Windows or Linux machine,
(2) Open it with file browser, such as Explorer or equivalen,
(3) Make sure the file browser is set to show 'hidden' & 'system'
files,
(4) Then search for & delete any files with 'AppleDouble' in their
names.

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Mark² - 28 Feb 2006 06:58 GMT

>>> My wife has a Canon powershot & aSanDisk card for it. She took a
>>> bunch of photos, put the card in her reader, looked a few (they were
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> (4) Then search for & delete any files with 'AppleDouble' in their
> names.

I didn't get that she was viewing them again on-camera.
If that is the case, then you are likely right...

It sounded to me like she went back to look...on her computer screen...but
again, the post was rather confusing...so who knows??

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Bill Funk - 28 Feb 2006 16:20 GMT

>>>> My wife has a Canon powershot & aSanDisk card for it. She took a
>>>> bunch of photos, put the card in her reader, looked a few (they were
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
>again, the post was rather confusing...so who knows??
>:)

That's what I got, too, but reading it again, it could have been in
the camera.
Do Macs really do that? If they do, why would they do that during a
read?

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Ray Fischer - 28 Feb 2006 23:22 GMT

> "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number here)@cox..net> opined:
>>> My wife has a Canon powershot & aSanDisk card for it. She took a
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
>No need - I have a fair idea what probably went wrong:

Maybe not.

>When you browse a writable disk on a Mac, it writes special HIDDEN
>system files to every folder, which is probably confusing the hell out
>of the camera when the card is put back in it.

Nope. That is not true of Mac OS X and shouldn't have any effect
even if it was true.

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John McWilliams - 28 Feb 2006 16:24 GMT

> My wife has a Canon powershot & aSanDisk card for it. She took a bunch of
> photos, put the card in her reader, looked a few (they were ok) & coipied
> them to her Mac (G4, OS 9
> When she went back to look, now they are all messed up.
> Any idea what cause this & how to keepo it from happening in the future?

Yes: Don't do that!

Seriously, reformat the card in the camera, then tell more precisely
what happens, including viewing software. However, I haven't used OS9
for several years.

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