Nick has pointed out the obvious to me! Yes the SD card did have the locking switch on!! As I only ever use Flash Cards, I wasn't aware of this locking facility. So on we go - after only wasting 3 hours today,trying to download! All is successfully downloaded now. Damn technology!
Thanks Nick Denise Williams-Photographer PH 9447 3468 MOB 0417 184592 [EMAIL PROTECTED] TRIGG > Denise, > > I use an SD card in my Palm and mine is a sandisk 512 Mbyte. It has a > lock switch down the left hand side. When locked the contents is > locked. this may be what is causing the problem. Just check and see. > I always thought it was read only but it may be causing problems. It > is a slim possibility. > > Alternately you have a protection problem - try get info when the > disk is mounted (which happens when iphoto sees the camera) to > desktop and look at a file. Maybe you could also drag them to the > desktop. > > HTH > > > Nick > On 16/06/2007, at 12:11 PM, Denise Williams wrote: > >> Hi all -esp photographers, >> I recently went to take a series of photos of my niece's new baby >> but found >> I had no card in my Canon SLR camera so borrowed her SD card and >> took a heap >> of photos using my camera. I made sure I wasn't taking RAWS, just >> JPGs but >> now find I can't transfer the photos to my iMac. All the photos are >> visible >> when previewing on my camera (and other cameras) but when I >> initially put >> the SD card into my camera, I get the message "card 2, write >> protected". I >> can't take another photo or do anything, except view using Preview. >> My card >> reader is only for Flash cards so I've hooked the camera directly >> to the >> iMac and gone through all the usual steps to download from the >> camera, but >> nothing shows. I then tried PhotoRescue (which I've used before for a >> different reason) but it can't find the card either. >> Help please! Is there ANY way to download 'write protected photos'? I >> definitely didn't choose this option from my camera's menu either >> (I can >> take photos when a Flash card is inserted). >> TIA >> >> Denise Williams-Photographer >> PH 9447 3468 >> MOB 0417 184592 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Trigg >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Denise Williams-Photographer PH 9447 3468 MOB 0417 184592 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 55 Duart Rd TRIGG WA 6029 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
