OK, that's interesting because when I have replaced the slot 1 card without the slot 2 card being at capacity the subsequent shots started to accumulate immediately on the first card again as far as I can recall.
On 4 March 2014 07:34, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > I had an interesting card-glitch today though nothing as costly and dramatic > as yours Rob. > > Evenings while traveling I download from cards to my laptop, with a copy via > Lightroom to an external drive. For this trip I had thought that I would NOT > format the cards, but just leave the shots to accumulate; after all, my total > for a couple of weeks is seldom more than 60-70 Gb, and with two cameras, > four 32Gb cards I figured I would have no issue. Last night, as I approached > capacity on card #1 in body #1, I changed my mind. After downloading from > both bodies, I formatted the cards in slots 1 and 2 on both bodies. > > So today I did a bunch of shooting. Downloaded images from card #1 in body > #1, but found nothing on card #1, body #2. Huh? I know I used body #2 at > least some of the time! > For some odd reason that has no apparent meaning for me, body #2 wrote only > to card #2, bypassing the perfectly good card in slot #1. Nothing lost, but > those images just not where I had expected them to be. > > stan > > On Mar 2, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: > >> Thanks guys, still coming to terms with the issue. >> >> The cards were all genuine Sandisk, Extreme 32GB 45MB/s, one new and >> one old and an earlier Extreme 32GB 30MB/s card, none of which ever >> gave me the remotest hint of a problem when used in two K5 bodies. Not >> happy. >> >> Cheers, >> >> On 3 March 2014 11:44, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sorry to hear of your difficulties, Rob. >>> >>> May I ask what brand the cards are? >>> >>> As you may know SanDisk offers a recovery software. In addition to >>> that, there are these: >>> http://download.cnet.com/SDHC-Card-Recovery-Pro/3000-2248_4-75904835.html >>> http://sd-card-format-recovery.soft112.com/ >>> http://www.reclaime.com/library/memory-card-recovery.aspx >>> >>> No personal experience with any of them. Good luck. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I'm very sorry to hear this, Rob. I wonder if you are seeing a similar >>>> issue to what I saw very early on. I shot some stuff and returning >>>> home I couldn't unload my card because it couldn't be read in my Mac. >>>> The Mac unmounted the card shortly after insertion saying it had >>>> damaged formating. And I couldn't convince the Disk Utility to repair >>>> it either. >>>> >>>> Can you see the card content when inserted into the K-3? >>>> >>>> What I determined was that I had failed to reformat the SD card >>>> immediately after purchase. After reformating (in-camera) that card >>>> and another of the same type that I purchased later I have not had any >>>> further problems after thousands of frames taken. >>>> >>>> After this incident I did switch the K-3 to dual (ie redundant) write >>>> mode and I always have two cards inserted. I wasn't going to take any >>>> more chances. :-( >>>> >>>> BTW, sadly I lost the content of that "damaged formating" card. I >>>> could see the images when the card was in the K-3 but nothing I did >>>> allowed me to extract that data, even over a USB cable. I was sorely >>>> pissed off. >>>> >>>> Something I never tried doing was to mount the card under Windows and >>>> use format repair utilities on it. I regret failing to try that but it >>>> didn't occur to me at the time. >>>> >>>> I hope you have better luck. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Well I'm just about toast if my card recovery doesn't go well, I shot >>>>> a show last night, a fairly important one in fact and of three card >>>>> used in the K3 only one is readable. The one card is a month or two >>>>> old and the others I have had for a while and operated without a >>>>> problem. All cards were formatted in camera before the gig so should >>>>> be error free. >>>>> >>>>> I have the K3 set up to cascade from card 1 to 2 and when card two was >>>>> full I replaced card 1 with an empty card and that's the only one that >>>>> I can read. 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