Maybe someone has seen this before. I have a 512MB CF card that I'm
trying to copy some pictures to. It'll load a little over 120 MB, then
tell me the disk is full, though it also tells me there's 383MB left.
I've tried deleting the files, reformatting the CF card, neither has
worked. I do have 'show hidden files' enabled in Explorer, so there's
nothing hiding there.
This card was used in my cameras - Nikons previously, most recently my
XTI - with no problems.
Any help in regaining the other 2/3 of the card would be appreciated!
On Mon, 07 May 2007 21:11:20 +0930, jmc
<NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote:
>Maybe someone has seen this before. I have a 512MB CF card that I'm
>trying to copy some pictures to. It'll load a little over 120 MB, then
>tell me the disk is full, though it also tells me there's 383MB left.
>
>I've tried deleting the files, reformatting the CF card, neither has
>worked. I do have 'show hidden files' enabled in Explorer, so there's
>nothing hiding there.
>
>This card was used in my cameras - Nikons previously, most recently my
>XTI - with no problems.
>
>Any help in regaining the other 2/3 of the card would be appreciated!
>
>jmc
Have you tried putting more than 120MB of files on the card using
Explorer? If so, what happened?
Does the card behave the same in other cameras?
Is the problem constant, or intermittant?
If the problem is constant in Explorer and other cameras, it's
probably farkled. New 1GB cards are very inexpensive; 512MB cards cost
even less.
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On May 7, 6:41 am, jmc <NOnewsgroupsS...@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote:
> Maybe someone has seen this before. I have a 512MB CF card that I'm
> trying to copy some pictures to. It'll load a little over 120 MB, then
> tell me the disk is full, though it also tells me there's 383MB left.
>
> I've tried deleting the files, reformatting the CF card,
Did you reformat the card in-camera, or with Explorer? Explorer
formats of CF cards is a source of all manner of evil.
jmc wrote:
>Maybe someone has seen this before. I have a 512MB CF card that I'm
>trying to copy some pictures to. It'll load a little over 120 MB, then
>tell me the disk is full, though it also tells me there's 383MB left.
>
>I've tried deleting the files, reformatting the CF card, neither has
>worked. I do have 'show hidden files' enabled in Explorer, so there's
>nothing hiding there.
>
>This card was used in my cameras - Nikons previously, most recently my
>XTI - with no problems.
>
>Any help in regaining the other 2/3 of the card would be appreciated!
>
>jmc
I had this problem with an older camera and it had a feature that enabled me
to save some pictures so they would not be accidently deleted. Go through
your menu and see if that feature is on your camera. Hope this was helpful.
> jmc wrote:
>>Maybe someone has seen this before. I have a 512MB CF card that I'm
>>trying to copy some pictures to. It'll load a little over 120 MB, then
>>tell me the disk is full, though it also tells me there's 383MB left.
>>
>>I've tried deleting the files, reformatting the CF card, neither has
>>worked. I do have 'show hidden files' enabled in Explorer, so there's
>>nothing hiding there.
>>
>>This card was used in my cameras - Nikons previously, most recently my
>>XTI - with no problems.
>>
>>Any help in regaining the other 2/3 of the card would be appreciated!
>>
>>jmc
>
Are you possibly trying to write too many files to it at the root level? If
so, just create a directory and move them into it.
On Mon, 7 May 2007 17:49:01 -0500, PCs Rule wrote:
> Are you possibly trying to write too many files to it at the root level? If
> so, just create a directory and move them into it.
Doubtful. I'm not aware of any camera that doesn't place image
files into folders, which are created as needed. Austin may have
hit upon the cause of the problem if the camera wasn't used to
format the card, it expects a FAT16 format, and a computer gave the
card a FAT32 format. While rare, the card could also have gone bad.
jmc wrote:
> Maybe someone has seen this before. I have a 512MB CF card that I'm
> trying to copy some pictures to. It'll load a little over 120 MB, then
> tell me the disk is full, though it also tells me there's 383MB left.
You're doing this in the PC, not the camera, right? Try the suggestion
from PCs Rule - put your files in a subdirectory (folder).
Root directories (aka top-level folders) have a special limitation on
the number of files they can hold. Subdirectories don't. The magic
number is something like 512, if memory serves.
> This card was used in my cameras - Nikons previously, most recently my
> XTI - with no problems.
Cameras store images in sub-directories, which don't have this limitation.
On Mon, 07 May 2007 19:08:50 -0700, Richard H. wrote:
> You're doing this in the PC, not the camera, right? Try the suggestion
> from PCs Rule - put your files in a subdirectory (folder).
Yep, that may be it. I didn't read carefully enough and thought
that he had problems with both the camera and the PC writing to the
card.
> Root directories (aka top-level folders) have a special limitation on
> the number of files they can hold. Subdirectories don't. The magic
> number is something like 512, if memory serves.
It varies depending on the format, where from what I recall,
floppies could have 120 or fewer files in the root directory, and a
FAT16 drive probably has the 512 file limit that you recall.
Assuming the CF card could hold 512 files, if 235kb files were
copied to it, when the 512 file limit was reached the card would
contain 512 x 235kb, or about 120MB. Obviously the OP did not copy
high resolution multi-megapixel picture files if this explanation
represents the reason why he could not fill his CF card.
ASAAR wrote:
>>Root directories (aka top-level folders) have a special limitation on
>>the number of files they can hold. Subdirectories don't. The magic
>>number is something like 512, if memory serves.
>
> It varies depending on the format, where from what I recall,
> floppies could have 120 or fewer files in the root directory, and a
> FAT16 drive probably has the 512 file limit that you recall.
> Assuming the CF card could hold 512 files, if 235kb files were
> copied to it, when the 512 file limit was reached the card would
> contain 512 x 235kb, or about 120MB. Obviously the OP did not copy
> high resolution multi-megapixel picture files if this explanation
> represents the reason why he could not fill his CF card.
>
Yeah, you're probably right about 128 - I remember it was painfully easy
to hit. This used to be a common help desk problem (and maybe still is)
when users would save all their files in c:\. :-)
It'd make sense for this to have been fixed in larger versions of FAT,
but with Redmond nothing's surprising.
On Mon, 07 May 2007 21:48:54 -0700, Richard H. wrote:
>> It varies depending on the format, where from what I recall,
>> floppies could have 120 or fewer files in the root directory, and a
>> FAT16 drive probably has the 512 file limit that you recall.
>> Assuming the CF card could hold 512 files, if 235kb files were
>> copied to it, when the 512 file limit was reached the card would
>> contain 512 x 235kb, or about 120MB. Obviously the OP did not copy
>> high resolution multi-megapixel picture files if this explanation
>> represents the reason why he could not fill his CF card.
>>
>
> Yeah, you're probably right about 128 - I remember it was painfully easy
> to hit. This used to be a common help desk problem (and maybe still is)
> when users would save all their files in c:\. :-)
>
> It'd make sense for this to have been fixed in larger versions of FAT,
> but with Redmond nothing's surprising.
You don't trust Redmond too? I like that! But no, before posting
my last reply I ran a disk test utility that can rapidly create a
specified number of files, terminating early if there's a disk
error. I had it create 6,000 files in the root directories of both
a FAT32 and an NTFS drive and it completed both times without error.
Wanting to see if there was a 32k or 64k limit, I just ran the
program a few more times and the NTFS volume's root directory now
has over 80,000 files in it. For the FAT32 volume I stopped after
creating only 40,000 files since all operations were *much* slower.
I still don't know what the maximum number of root directory files
is, or if there actually is a fixed limit, but it's large enough
that I won't worry about it. Maybe Redmond set it to 640k. After
all, who'd ever need more than that! <g>
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