Be sure to reformat the SD card in your camera before use! You may not get
any warning of impending doom for your photographs.

"RFJ" wrote in message
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"KILOWATT" wrote in message
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Hi everyones! Thanks to read.
I've bought an internal Flash card reader/floppy drive combo that you
can see he http://www.directron.com/fa404.html I'm running it
under Windows98SE with the appropriate driver (Win2000/ME/XP doesn't
need a driver). I've cheated since i'll buy my digicam only in a week
or two, but
i
wanted to get done at setting up the card reader 1st. I've bought
also an
SD
256Mb card from Transcend. Tested the reader with a friend's Memory
Stick and could read his pictures without any problem. Later during
the evening,
i
did some tests with my 256Mb SD card. I tried to transfer files to it
and then discovered a problem. For a few files there's no problem,
but when i try to write hundreds of .jpg files (no i'm not exceding
the capacity of
the
card...!), i eventually end up by geting the message: "The directory
or
file
cannot be created" and the transfer stops. What have been transfered
before
this error message appears is ok.

There is a limit of how many files you can put into a single
directory... Can you put folders onto the memory stick? Can you put
more files into those folders?




There is a limit of 512 files in the Root directory of a FAT16 drive, but
no practical limit to the number of files in a directory (folder).

So to solve Kilowatt's problem, create a folder on the SD card and copy
the
files into that.

Alternatively format the card as FAT32 which doesn't have the root
limitation - the disadvantage being that many digital cameras don't
support
the FAT32 file system.