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of foolproof systems always fail to take into account the ingenuity of
end-users to find ways to screw things up!"
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>From: Don Shedrick <shedridc@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: XD card troubles
>Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:05:41 -0800 (PST)
>
>I was trying to put a series of files from a recent trip on my XD card from
>my computer so I could show them on my E-500 as a slide show on a TV to
>relatives over the holidays. The files were processed and saved from
>Photoshop CS2. I found that none of them were visible on the camera - it
>showed a card error. However, when I resaved all the files to my computer
>from Olympus Master, then transferred them again to the XD card, they
>displayed fine on the E-500. So the Oly files (these were just jpegs) have
>some sort of info attached to them by the camera and the Olympus Master
>software that is required to view them in the camera. So I would recommend
>to resave any files you cannot view on the camera with the Olympus Master
>software and then see it you can view them on the camera. Also, to view
>any files on the E-500 you have to retain the same file name format - you
>can change it so long as it has the same number of digits, and you cannot
>add any letters after the
> numbers in the file name. ( at first I did this to reorder some files,
>but found it would not work in the camera) BTW, the Olympus Master has a
>nice batch file renaming and saving function that works very well, but is a
>bit hard to find in the software.
>
>Steve Goss <stevegoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, Y'all-
>I think I've trashed one of my Dad's XD cards for his Olympus digicam.
>
>The camera can tell that there is a card in it, but can't show any of the
>pictures.
>Dad's Compaq Presario has XD/compact flash/SD/etc. port on the front, and
>it doesn't even recognize
> that there is a card in the slot.
>On the other hand, his HP 8250 printer does recognize the card and shows
>all the pictures.
>
>So what is the best way of handling this? print what he wants with the
>printer and then format it
>in the camera?
>
>How I killed his card:
>I'm setting up a network so my Dad can share files and printers between his
>Presario and his old
>IBM laptop. The Presario runs Windows XP, and the laptop runs Windows 98.
>The XP network wizard
>wants to create a setup disk for other machines on the net, but since the
>Presario doesn't have a
>floppy, the only drive it will create it on is one of the XD/compact
>flash/SD ports. Not a CD, and
>not a USB Jump drive. The network wizard did manage to put a file on the XD
>card, but then the
>Presario lost all contact with the card. Suggestions on how to tame the
>network wizard would be
>appreciated too.
>
>Thanks, Steve Goss, Dallas, TX usa
>
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