wilfredo Posted February 21, 2011 Share #1 Posted February 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) My MacBook is not reading a SanDisk Extreme flash card. It's as if it weren't plugged into my MacBook. If I switch to another FC no problem. In all my years of shooting digital I've never encountered this problem. Any ideas? The card has RAW images visible on the LCD of my M8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wilfredo Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share #2 Posted February 21, 2011 I tried turning the MacBook on and off. If I turn it on with the questionable FC plugged into the MacBook, it doesn't boot, it turns on but the screen remains blank. Weird. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted February 21, 2011 I tried formatting the card and now the few images I had on it vanished. Any suggestions on how to recover them? I had at least one good portrait shot on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted February 21, 2011 Share #4 Posted February 21, 2011 When the computer is older then maybe the problem is the built-in SD card reader which possibly cannot read SD-HC or SD-XC cards but regular SD cards only. Recovering files from a formatted memory card is possible as long as you have not yet written any new files to it after the formatting. Use data-recovery software. There are a few freeware programs floating on the Internet which do a very good job recovering JPEG files, like Recuva for instance. But I have not yet found one which also can recover raw image files, including DNG files—to recover these I'm afraid you'll have to purchase one of the commercial data-recovery programs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted February 21, 2011 Share #5 Posted February 21, 2011 I tried formatting the card and now the few images I had on it vanished. Any suggestions on how to recover them? I had at least one good portrait shot on it. Wilfredo, Why in the world would you format a card that you were trying to get images off of? Your card reader may be SD only while trying to download images from a SDHC card. You were probably better off trying a different card reader. Hope it works out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share #6 Posted February 21, 2011 Thanks for the tips. Live and learn. My IMAC reads the Flash Card in question just fine, and is the same age as my MacBook. I'll try a different Card Reader when I get home on my MacBook and see if that's the issue? I suspect it is. I only shoot RAW so I need to accept the fact that I blew it by formatting the Flash Card while grasping for straws. The lost images will have to live in my brain only. Thankfully there are new images out there waiting to be photographed. Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Allsopp Posted February 21, 2011 Share #7 Posted February 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) The lost images will have to live in my brain only. Thankfully there are new images out there waiting to be photographed. Cheers! Try this link, it may just save the day Camera Stage Left: It had to happen sooner or later - I got a corrupted memory card Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share #8 Posted February 22, 2011 "Please Reset Folder Number" is a message I am getting on my LCD screen with the card in question when I put it in the camera. I've never ever seen this message and have no idea what it is? Any ideas? Looks like formatting the card with images on it totally screwed it up. The card appears to be useless now. It is a 4G SanDisk Extreme. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted February 22, 2011 Share #9 Posted February 22, 2011 Did you decide not to try to recover your images? Quit playing with it if you still want to try Bill's software solution. Otherwise, the warning you're getting probably means to follow the instructions on p 120 (pdf p 123 or 54 of 72) of the manual: [ATTACH]244905[/ATTACH] Also, Ed Chatlos seems to be the master of file numbering for M8 and M9, and he's a heckuva lot easier to understand than the manual. See the posts by Shootist (and in the first case, also the follow-up by Nicoleica) at http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m8-forum/106959-reset-folder-number-madness.html and http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m9-forum/151540-m9-folders.html. Good luck, Wilfredo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share #10 Posted February 22, 2011 ThanK you for these tips. I'm not home and don't have access to my M8 manual but I will give this a go tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted February 22, 2011 Share #11 Posted February 22, 2011 If you have two ports, try the other one. Also, if this card has never been used, check to see if it is a counterfeit. Amazingly, most of them sold on that big auction site are counterfeits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted February 22, 2011 Share #12 Posted February 22, 2011 If you pull out a card accidentally instead of ejecting it properly you can get this problem. Reformat in another computer. But first: You can rescue images from a formatted card using "rescue pro" (google) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share #13 Posted February 22, 2011 New issue: the flash card reads full, although there is nothing on it. I tried Bill's link but I'm not enough of a techie to figure out how to make it work? I'm just going to throw in the towel on this SD Flash Card, and throw it in the garbage. I did learn two valuable lessons. Lesson #1 old flash card readers don't work with 4G or higher Flash Cards. Lesson #2 Never format Flash Cards with images on them. It will erase the images and screw up the Flash Card. BTW I never remove a Flash Card without properly ejecting it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted February 22, 2011 Share #14 Posted February 22, 2011 #2 shouldn't be that way. The card should not be screwed up by formatting, and the files are not erased, but can easily be recovered - provided the card is not knackered like this one obviously is. I had one like that too. RIP. And you're a better man than I am - I regularly forget to remove cards properly. So I lock them before inserting in the reader. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristianHemker Posted February 23, 2011 Share #15 Posted February 23, 2011 Try to recover and then throw the card away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted February 23, 2011 Share #16 Posted February 23, 2011 Lesson #2 Never format flash cards with images on them. It will [...] screw up the flash card. Actually, reformatting is an appropriate method to get a screwed-up flash card straight. Except, of course, when the card's hardware is defective. As a matter of fact, it's the preferred routine to get rid of a card's contents after downloading on a daily basis because, unlike deleting, it helps to avoid screwing up the card in the first place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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