G'day John, It may very well have been the card. It was a 256 Sandisk Ultra II. I don't use it much anymore and have had no problems at all since I got the same card in 1GB.
I still re-format the card after downloading files. It's probably unnecessary, but I don't think it does any harm. Dave S On 4/27/05, John Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, it sounds like a problem with your *istD,or the particular card > you're using. I have only formatted my 512 MB card twice, and that was > after doing a firmware upgrade, and have never yet (touch wood) lost either > files or parts of files. However, I've probably not downloaded as many > times as most in this group, as I'm as yet only up to some 1400 shots! > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:13 PM > Subject: Re: Corrupt card recovery > > > Mark, > > > > I had troubles early on with my *ist D. Sometimes I'd put the card in > > the card reader but there were no files visible. Put the card back in > > the camera & there they were. I ended up using PC Inspector Smart > > Recovery to recover the images. > > > > I find that if I don't format the card after downloading the files, I > > have intermittent problems with corrupted & invisible data. > > > >SNIP> > >
