philspectrum Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 Had a client in with a 512 xd card this morning, - could see images on camera. inserted card into pc to check, ejected, then into kodak G4 kiosk, - all files duplicated, same name/size/image but cannot find wanted images re-inserted xd into pc - looked again, ejected, then back into g4 - now got 4 of each file ! - but are missing many files too ! When right click/properties - says card has 1020 meg (is a 512) - all files present including AVI files are repeated 4 times with identical names, dates, times, sizes. Have we corrupted card ? card about 1 year old, full, fuji blue, never re-formatted, BUT - client could see pictures on camera when brought in, - cannot see anything now ..... Have run Zero Assumption - found 230 images and plenty of avi files, - good thumbnails, but incomplete files so grey portions of wanted images. Anyone encountered anything like this. I suspect we have done the damage, and want to avoid ever doing again, and any way to fix images on card ? Have copied each named file separately, - but they are the same (good) part set of images, - and I need the missing ones. Will run PhotoNose and PC inspector suggestions - how has it happened, any more recovery options ? P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Dave Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 Is the card a type "H" or type "M" ? I forget which, but one of them does have a tendency to get corrupted by inserting into an older card reader. Do a search here, there was a lengthy discussion regarding these cards last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philspectrum Posted September 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 The blue H type, apparently faster write speeds, but withdrawn because they were more costly to make, or is that an old minilabbers tale? Do you have a link to the thread you mention? More please. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 Have a look at these threads:- http://www.minilabhelp.com/forum/Blah.pl?m-1142601487/s-0/ http://www.minilabhelp.com/forum/Blah.pl?m-1202985073/s-0/ http://www.minilabhelp.com/forum/Blah.pl?m-1235230968/s-0/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colopt Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 Yep sounds familiar. See above threads. I haven't had any problems with XD cards since using the Sandisk card reader, I also have a Fuji USB XD reader which I've had no problems with but it's slow. I still don't like XD cards, and I don't trust 'em, never will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photographis Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 Be really interested in the outcome of this one Phil, sorry I can't give any input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchman Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 Look here => http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=12078/14398/15215&pq-locale=en_US frenchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLA Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 unfortunately I have had a problem with a xd card only this week, can't remember if it was a H or M type but it certainly was one of them. I used it with the sandisk reader in my kiosk but when I later used it in another pc all files had disappeared. They were recovered with recovery software but the card reader is clearly not 100% secure and I have no idea why as everyone I talk to say they have no problems with this reader. I'm another who does not trust them and I would NEVER buy a camera that uses one. Infact I almost cringe when they appear in the shop. There may be many advantages to digital but my job has not been too enjoyable with this invention! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.T Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 Intrestingly Fuji have stopped using XD cards in theit cameras and Olympus now have a choice of SD or XD or SD only in their new cameras. Seems this was an idea that never really worked properly. Give it a couple of years and you won't see many XD cards if any. I'm seeing less and less as users become frustrated with them Unreliable little bits of sh#t > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colopt Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 If you do a google search on this, you'll find many examples of this problem. In my view XD cards are of a faulty design, Olympus should have stopped using them years ago. You could try some different recovery programs, but in my experience the more times you perform a recovery, the less successful it becomes, the data seems to become more & more scrambled! I have considered in the past refusing to deal with these cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpcrichard Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 We have used the olympus xd reader for 2 years and the card reader on the kiosk does not have a xd slot so they come up ask for xd reader when they need it ,so we haven,t had any problems in that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philspectrum Posted September 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Thanks for the comments and links. I have performed a number of rescues, and have tons of folders with many many images. - all images have been renamed by the recovery software Most images are duplicated many times, - but I think that there are a few unique images scattered amongst. Some images thumbnail ok, - but have part of the image horizontally greyed out. Having spent many hours recovering the files I would like to present them to my client as attractively as possible, - and preferebly without duplication, - is there any software out there that can compare images and delete duplicate data so I end up with one neat set ? I can see the truoble these cards have caused many others, - can you post text wording of your disclaimer. How do you respond to XD cards - do you warn before handling, say no, - or just prey ? hOW HAVE MINILABHELPERS RESOLVED PAST PROBLEMS WITH CLIENTS ? Finally, I hope to give my client a cd with the recovered images, with cropping out for the partial images, - but that is a lot of manual cropping. Am thinking about putting through kiosk, and changing print channel to a cd burn channel to do a tidy cropped save, - and other FASTER suggestions ? thanks Again Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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