murm Loc: Adelaide, Australia

Your all over this one Jerry :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I like experimenting.

Brian45 Loc: Melbourne, Australia

MT Shooter, BboH and schuchmn, that sums it up perfectly.
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DK Loc: SD

Just don't erase the card in the first place. I keep all of my photos (that are worth saving) on the card and save the cards. At least you have the original that way.

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

That sounds as though it might work.
I'am at work now ...I might have to give that a try if I get a chance t
onight when I get home

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

Cameras are not viewing devices. Any digital camera will only read a file it recorded before it's been uploaded. When uploaded the files are altered slightly and the camera can no longer see them.

Bugfan Loc: Toronto, Canada

You've got me really confused. I routinely download from a variety of cards from a variety of cameras with no problems either way. In my case if I don't delete the images from the card they are still there when I put the card back into the camera.

All I can figure is that you're doing this in a way that causes them to be deleted or somehow marked such that the camera can't read them any more.

When I download my images I use Windows explorer and I simply copy and paste or I drag and drop, both from the card to the computer. Either approach works and preserves the data on the card. When I'm done I usually delete the card's images before returning it to the camera but when I don't the data is still there and the camera can still read it.

What I would suggest too is to not write files to the card from the computer. Once in a while this seems to bugger up the card though I don't know why. In the end recovery is reformatting the card.

What I also make a point of doing for the sake of keeping everything clean is to reformat the card when I return it to the camera. That keeps everything tidy too.

The only suggestion I have for you is to try this with other cards. It's possible that perhaps there's a problem with the card you're using. And of course be careful how you transfer the images, perhaps you're actually moving them instead of cutting and pasting them.

It's also possible to hide images by the way though that's usually done at the camera end not the computer. Still, if you manage to hide them somehow they'd then also not show up on the camera even if the computer can still see them.

Good Luck!

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

You must not take/save many photos.

I just took a 'leaf peeper' day trip. I (and my lovely wife of almost 40 years) shot a couple hundred.

We're going to a 'Día de los Muertos' (day of the dead) celebration next week, and I fully expect to take 5-600 shots.

I probably overshoot, but there are times it's that 2nd, 3rd or even 4th shot that's the keeper.

I download and backup EVERY shot I take, unless it's an obvious error (like a shot of my feet), and then reformat the card(s) in-camera, ready for my next shoot.

I can't even imagine keeping every card I shoot on. At this point, I'd have an entire file drawer full of cards. And I'd still have to have an index/filing system so I could find old images. Keeping all my old images meant that, when my cat suddenly died, I could find images back to when she was a kitten.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

You probably will not be able to return them to the SD card, even if you put them back in the right folder, since the computer is not likely to know how to properly update the index - different for each camera manufacturer.

DK Loc: SD

I have over 12,000 photos on this computer library. Last photo shoot I went on, I saved over 200 photos on my computer. I just keep the cards and never erase them. I store them in a safe place and I can upload them to my computer anytime. Memory cards are cheap. I always use Class 10 Sandisk or other well-known brands. I never kept track of how many photos I took in Alaska. I only delete the ones in camera that are out of focus or have some other undesirable problem. I upload the cards into both computers and back them up on an external device. So, I have the cards, computer and backup. The card that is in the camera that happens to be next to my chair right now has 1122 images on it. I always upload them to my computers after a shoot, so if the card dies, I still have the images on my computers. It works for me.

Bugfan Loc: Toronto, Canada

DK ... that's not a good idea. Flash memory, which is what those cards are, is not forever. It has a finite number of read write cycles after which it starts to degrade. I suppose that if you don't touch the cards after you put them away you might indeed get many years from the memory but why take a chance? It's cheaper to burn a DVD periodically instead and they can be forever. Place a copy off site, keep another at home as an archive, and have a third on the shelf to look at when you feel like it.

I suppose it depends on how important your images are but to me certainly they're important enough to follow my own advice.

Brian45 Loc: Melbourne, Australia

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romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

It could if that option is selected in the download preferences on the computer- it might say erase after downloading. It doesn't erase the images, it just removes their ID titles so they can't be found.

Deb58 Loc: Upstate, New York

Most times the camera will make it's own folder to store the photos. You will have to put them back in the folder in order to view them on your camera. Hope this helps.

DK Loc: SD

I do burn DVDs of the really important stuff. My external memories are in the gun safe in another house. Actually, how do we know there will be DVD players in the future?