Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

I recently took a vacation in Taiwan. I was shooting a Canon 6D. When I was these I took about 2500 photos. However, when I returned, I noticed about 100 or so photos that were not on the memory card. The card is a 16 G SanDisk card with the speed of 10. When I looked at the sequence numbers, there is no drop in sequence. This is strange since all other photos are there. This time period was an entire afternoon shooting a museum and the coast along northern Taipei. I have a suspicion that these photos were lost because I allowed my sister-in-law to copy these groups to her flash drive on someone else's computer. My only suspicion is that they MOVED the photos instead of COPY the photos. However, I cannot verify this. OK, so my question is this, has anyone else had this problem with their camera/SD card? Or am I the only one that has this problem? These pictures are not easily replaceable since they were all shot in Taiwan and I will not be going back there in the near future. Any suggestions?? Keep it clean and beneficial, not caustic, thanks

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

Borrow your sister-in-law's flash drive.

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

I think you've answered your own question, but all may not be lost if you can contact the person the photos were moved to. Good luck, but either way it's a good lesson to remember for all of us! S-

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

try card recovery

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/search.jsp?q=recover+pictures+from+card&u=&s=0

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

When you say 'there is no drop in sequence' - do I understand right that there are no missing numbers?
If that is the case, no photos would have been removed, because they would have left missing numbers.
Therefore I would submit that somehow you thought you were taking a certain photo, but didn't... or rather, the camera didn't record it.
If there are missing numbers, that would make a good case for your S-i-L having moved them rather than copied. Ask her! She may not have done that deliberately, and then is probably more than willing to let you copy them back.

Dan L Loc: Wisconsin

Also check different file format too. If you shot in RAW and maybe also changed into jpeg. Just a thought. So down load in another format.

happy sailor Loc: Ontario, Canada

Hi Bill, did you only have one SD card or have you misplaced one of a set. The 6d would only hold about 500 pictures on a 16GB card. My 6d does not re use the numbers that have been deleted off the card. I think you can reset the numbering sequence on one of the menus but I have never done that and don't know which menu it is, could that have happened?

I went through a somewhat similar situation when I had gone to Ireland and couldn't find a lot of my pictures. Fortunately about two months after I was back I found a card and lo and behold my photos were on one it.

Hope you find your pictures.

Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

All I can think is the last 100 pics.

wisner Loc: The planet Twylo

Copying files from an SD card to a hard drive will not delete them from the card, only copy them to the new location. However, when your SIIL copied the files, there may have been a dialog box pop up asking if she wanted to delete the files. I do know if I download files from an sd card to iPhoto, when finished,Inhave the option of deleting the files from the card or keeping them.
If you have not formatted the card, you may be able to recover them.
Good luck!

Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

Thanks for you reply. My sister-in-law is still in Taiwan. We just contacted her and she is sending a burnt CD of the flash drive. Hopefully these pics are on it.
Bill

Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

It's tough since we do not speak a common language: me in English and her in Chinese., but I will give it a shot. Thanks

Bill

Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

Thanks Happy, I think the files are missing when I had them copied. Funny that the sequence if photo images were not disturbed. I think that when the copy event happened, these pictures were at the end of the numbered sequence. Maybe the camera continued from those deleted (MOVED) files. I will wait for my S-I_S- to send me her CD.Thanks for your reply,

Bill

Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

MS
I think that they were at the end of the sequence when my sister-in-law copied/moved these original files. She may have moved a file sequence as indicated in the details page. They are my only thoughts. Anyway, thanks for your reply.

Bill

Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

Wisner, I was not watching the actual coping operation, so I don't know what happened. I do know if you MOVE a file, it gets deleted from the original medium, whereas, if you COPY the file, it will be retained on the original medium. I suspect this is what happened. Thanks foryour response,
Bill

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

If the sequence of numbers doesn't have a gap, how can pictures be missing unless they are from the very beginning or the very end? Recorded files don't just change names randomly if some are yanked out of the midst of them. Once they are recorded with a specific number they stay that way until manually changed by renaming them on a PC. If the photos were moved instead of copied, you'd see a gap in the number sequence, so that's not an option.

My question and comment, beneficial and not a caustic one by the way, is why you would vacation in a great place like Taiwan and put 2500 photos on a single 16GB card and then you even let it out of your possession into the hands of your sister-in-law. Red warning flags everywhere! Your whole trip could have been wiped from existence in one dipstick move by someone else, from losing the single card, from accidentally formatting it, from the card failing, or any number of other goof ups. At the very least you should have been backing up to a 32GB thumb drive every couple hundred shots to protect yourself - or using several $8.00 8GB memory cards to split the trip into daily or couple-day segments between backups. Even locally I never put more than one day's shots on a card before I start over with a fresh card.