Dear Listees, A strange thing has started to happen recently with a card reader where it won't recognise the files on the card. I am running XP
Up to now we have had no problems in downloading the files from a D60 using a firewire card reader. The files are on microdrive(s). Just a couple of weeks or so ago, we started to have real problems. Instead of thumbnails in the download window, there are yellow boxes with questionmarks. This then freezes the program and usually the computer. Freezing of our XPs is something we never see. I thought the card reader had been damaged by the lightning strike that I had had, so bought a new one. Same problem. Moved to a different work station, with no success. Changed microdrives, tried jpgs instead of RAW, still doesn't work. The images can be seen on the camera, I should mention. On the second workstation, where the Zoombrowser had to be newly installed (the 4.02 updated version) it seems as if the driver for the reader cannot be found. These readers don't have software with drivers to install, as they are just plug and play and don't need the drivers. There are no drivers on the sites to download (as they are not needed, supposedly!). So in this case, the message I get is just that it doesn't find a camera. When I plug in the driver, sometimes it will show the drive on my computer explore window, sometimes it doesn't. If it shows the drive, the files in the right pane are just unrecognised icons, with little squares next to them, all 684 kb and 64 of them. If I try to open the RAW image in Capture One DSLR light, I see nothing on the drive. Has anyone else experienced this, and do they know a fix? I assume that this must be something to do with the OS and all the security fixes that have been posted and downloaded lately. I have searched MS site, and come up with a fix for firewire drives that can't be 'enumerated', but it stresses only to use this where you have that problem. As I don't know what 'enumerate' means when it comes to drives, I am not anxious to risk other problems. I used this card reader with no problems at all until a few weeks ago. Any help will be very much appreciated. Best regards, Ellie -- Ellie Kennard Innovative Imaging Studio http://www.iiStudio.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
