Hi Denise and other WAMUG'ers, Just an addition to this thread, and by the way congratulations to Nick for pointing out this solution.
I prefer to use a Card Reader when downloading photos from my cards - I use SD cards and my card reader currently is a San Disk capable of reading cards of various formats. Before inserting my SD card in the reader, I always make sure that the 'Write Protect' switch is turned 'ON' to protect my photos. I can download the photos with the Write Protect on when using the card reader and thus feel a bit more secure!! It is only after having copied the photos to one of my hard-drive and burning them successfully to a couple of CDs or DVDs that I delete the photos from the card. I use mostly Graphic Converter for my photo use, ie to download the photos from the card reader and mostly to batch convert the photos from jpg to tiff. I tend to keep all my photos in those two formats. Have a nice Sunday all. Philippe C. -- You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails. German Proverb on 17/6/07 2:20 AM, Denise Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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 >>> -- 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]>
