topic Re: forgot to format sd card in Point & Shoot Digital Cameras

forgot to format sd card

grey — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:54:29 GMT

I pulled a card out of a S3 and put it in SX120. Not thinking, I went on and shot pictures at family party. Now, when I connect camera to computer, nothing happens. Zoombrowser does not ask to import pictures. I can open Zoombrowser manually, but it only shows PICS from the S3. Zoombrowser does not show the PICS taken with the SX120. The new PICS are viewable in the SX120 camera.

What can I do to download the PICS to computer? I have not tried putting the card back in the S3.

Please help. I actually want to save these pictures.

Re: forgot to format sd card

kvbarkley — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:55:18 GMT

Try a card reader.

Re: forgot to format sd card

grey — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:56:45 GMT

wow that was fast!

I dont know what a card reader is, but will research

Re: forgot to format sd card

grey — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:00:23 GMT

Is there a way to get them into Zoombrowser (and editing program) because I wanted to make a few of these black and white

Re: forgot to format sd card

cicopo — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 20:10:27 GMT

By chance have you forgot to install the software that came with the SX120? If you can see the photos on the LCD of the camera the files exist & now you need to get the computer to see them. If you have already installed the software (& used to before) then you might try (with the camera tethered to the computer) searching for them using "My Computer" or "File Explorer" etc & copy once found. Otherwise a card reader is recommended & everyone (as digital photographers) should own one. They are cheap & easy to use without many hassles.

Re: forgot to format sd card

RobertTheFat — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:02:15 GMT

@grey wrote:
I pulled a card out of a S3 and put it in SX120. Not thinking, I went on and shot pictures at family party. Now, when I connect camera to computer, nothing happens. Zoombrowser does not ask to import pictures. I can open Zoombrowser manually, but it only shows PICS from the S3. Zoombrowser does not show the PICS taken with the SX120. The new PICS are viewable in the SX120 camera.

What can I do to download the PICS to computer? I have not tried putting the card back in the S3.

Please help. I actually want to save these pictures.

Different cameras store their image files in different folders on the card, two (I think) levels down from the top of the tree. Zoombrowder probably doesn't know to look at the second folder, since it already sees the first folder. As someone has already suggested, use a card reader (attached to a computer) to search the card for the correct folder.

Re: forgot to format sd card

grey — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:10:23 GMT

Great answer. Plugged card into (different) computer and saved I had to find a computer made in this century !

My habit has been to use the canon utilities, or zoombrowser, or whatever it is called... to save, edit, ect... on an old desktop with Vista. I am not computer savvy. I enjoyed those programs. I want to intali some like programs

on a newer computer. That computer has only 'windows 7 PIctures'. I have lost my Canon disk. What is a program to install for the editing photo function. Simple stuff, like what I found on the old Vista computer. I know about download from Canon. Canon has alot I dont need. It is not as simple (small) as I need.

Good photo program? Thanks !!!

Re: forgot to format sd card

grey — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:23:58 GMT

That computer has only 'windows 7 PIctures'.

and 'Paint'.

Does paint have an editing function such as color, sizing, ect....? I did not see such on it.

Re: forgot to format sd card

cicopo — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:41:24 GMT

Use a Google search & find a program called Picasa. It's likely all you'll need & it's a free download. Works very well but unfortunately Google has dropped it so there won't be further updates down the road but in general that shouldn't affect you for a year or 2 & maybe longer. Free & easy to use.

Re: forgot to format sd card

ScottyP — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:39:19 GMT

Hi,

If you are not computer savvy, that is actually another great reason not to let zoombrowser or Windows, etc., to handle the uploading and saving process.

With a $10 or $20 card reader you take the card out of the camera, plug it into the card reader, plug the card reader into a USB slot on the computer and then you just do a drag and drop to take the photos from the card and put them into whatever folder you want to use for storage.

This is so simple that it can't get all screwed up when you buy a new camera, update Windows, get new software, buy a new computer, or buy a portable terabyte drive for photo storage, etc.... No need for tech support to have to try to figure out what weird little setting in what software ihas stopped talking with what firmware, etc..... Just drag and drop.

Re: forgot to format sd card

RobertTheFat — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:26:43 GMT

@cicopo wrote:
Use a Google search & find a program called Picasa. It's likely all you'll need & it's a free download. Works very well but unfortunately Google has dropped it so there won't be further updates down the road but in general that shouldn't affect you for a year or 2 & maybe longer. Free & easy to use.

Irfanview was still being updated as of earlier this year. And while I haven't used either one of them much, my impression is that Irfanview is more straightforward and easier to learn than Picasa.

Re: forgot to format sd card

cicopo — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 03:07:38 GMT

I've used Irfenview for some things but not editing. I've been using Picasa for roughly 8 years & do most of my event edits using it. Once you master a work flow in any program it's hard to switch to another but Picasa has worked out very well for me. Unfortunately Google gave up on the Web Album side of Picasa forcing me to move my past & future event coverage to Flickr which is OK but I'm still having issues with it as I learn how it all works. Sharing links is different in some of the forums I participate in so something that works at one is dead at another.