theehmann wrote:
I downloaded them in Photoshop Elements.
Best guess... If you used an "auto downloader" that may be the problem.
Take the memory card out of the camera... Put it into a card reader.
If an "auto downloader" starts up, cancel it.
Instead use your computers operating system browser and navigate to the memory card, which will appear like an add'l hard drive, probably with a label like "Nikon_Digital" or similar.
Open the memory card in the browser.
Inside you will probably find a folder labelled "DCIM", click on that.
Inside DCIM you will see two or more folders. Ignore the one labelled "Misc". Look for one or more folders labelled "100", "101", etc. Click on and open each of those, one at a time.
Inside 100 and similar folders you should see a list of the images taken. You can highlight any single one with a mouse click, then select them all with "alt A". Now you can drag and drop them to the folder on your computer where you'd like to copy them.
The reason there may be more than one folder on the card is because most cameras only put 001-999 (or maybe 0001-9999) images in one folder, then create a new one for the next sequence. It may create a new folder even when you are at the end of the sequence... say you take five shots number 9995-9999, then the next image, named 0001 will be put into a new folder.
Now when you went to download, if you let the autoloader handle it and there are duplicate file numbers, it might think those are duplicates and not download them.
I'm guessing this might be why the images you shot weren't downloaded. The above "manual" procedure should tell you if they are still on the memory card, possibly in a second folder.
If you try to download files into a folder where some with the same name already exist, the operating system should stop and ask you what to do: cancel the download, overwrite the existing files with the new ones, or keep both by changing the name of the new ones (usually by adding a suffix).
Incidentally, don't "move" images during a download. Instead always "copy" them. This leaves the originals untouched on the memory card, until you can confirm that everything has been safely downloaded (and hopefully backed up). Later when you have everything you want to keep copied off the card safely, you can simply "format" the card in your camera to "erase" the old images. This doesn't actually erase anything. It just marks all the old files as "okay to overwrite". If you make a mistake and catch yourself before you start shooting and adding new images to the card, the old images are usually still recoverable, although special software is needed to do that.