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slaveofconvention
10-01-2009, 05:19 AM
Ok fellow geeks - explain this one lol....

My 2gb xD Picture card from my digital camera...

http://www.slaveofconvention.com/imagestore/forums/fullcapacity.png

Makes sense so far, right?

So I copied everything off to clear the card and...

http://www.slaveofconvention.com/imagestore/forums/copying.png

Hmmm... odd - copying 4gb+ off of a 2gb card....

The reason...

http://www.slaveofconvention.com/imagestore/forums/reason.png

That's a pretty big picture lol - expecially on a 5mp camera :P

I smell data corruption of some kind heh
billygoat333
10-01-2009, 07:16 AM
wow thats a big photo!
gntlkilr
10-01-2009, 10:56 AM
Thats awesome! Seems like the FAT got corrupted. Any true data loss (non recovereable)?
Luke122
10-01-2009, 11:23 AM
I've had floppies tell me that there is 1.5tb on them before. :D

Definitely corruption. If you have your photos successfully off, try a full format. :D
slaveofconvention
10-01-2009, 11:26 AM
That one photo was lost - I didn't try hard to recover it (ie, not at all lol) - there was nothing important/irreplaceable so not too bothered...
x88x
10-01-2009, 04:24 PM
What? I don't see anything wrong with that. You obviously just set your camera on the 'defy laws of physics' mode, and it took a 5 Terapixel picture instead of the 5 Megapixel that it normally does...then stored the 4GiB file on a 2GiB storage card. :P
slaveofconvention
10-01-2009, 04:26 PM
compression baby!!!!
Bopher
10-01-2009, 10:01 PM
What? I don't see anything wrong with that. You obviously just set your camera on the 'defy laws of physics' mode, and it took a 5 Terapixel picture instead of the 5 Megapixel that it normally does...then stored the 4GiB file on a 2GiB storage card. :P

Exactly. I used that setting for a while but black holes kept popping up, dragging random things in. People got mad. So I had to stop.
Oneslowz28
10-02-2009, 06:40 AM
WOAH!!! I have pulled over 100,000 photos off memory cards over the last 3 years and never got that error.

PS... Always remember to format your card using the cameras formatting option.
slaveofconvention
10-02-2009, 06:46 AM
Yeah lol - last time I did the format with the PC took me over an hour to get the camera to recognise the card, and I still don't know what I did to make it recognise it :p
Oneslowz28
10-02-2009, 06:23 PM
I bricked a 4gb kingston cf card by formatting on the pc. This was back when a 4gb card was bleeding edge tech. Paid something like $68 for that card.