Who has never lost anything from a SD card
Dec 23, 2013 08:38:41 #
Never YET. Never say never.
Anyway...
I'm with Chapjohn - download and reformat every day.
My cam has two slots. For fun, slot two is for that rare video.
For work it's backup.
Anyway...
I'm with Chapjohn - download and reformat every day.
My cam has two slots. For fun, slot two is for that rare video.
For work it's backup.
Dec 23, 2013 08:43:35 #
I don't ever take the card out of the camera but use the USB cable to transfer pictures to my computer. Never felt good about popping the card in and out of the camera slot. I copy and paste the pictures to the computer so they remain on the card until I am completely sure they are safely transferred. I have never had any problem with my cards. :)
Dec 23, 2013 08:50:13 #
I'm a computer guy by trade. While I have been fortunate over the years, I have had countless people bring me SD cards for recovery and I'm successful at getting about 75% of them back in business. Many bad things can happen to a card, particularly when computers are involved. I have my most important files and pictures in at least 3 of the following places at all times. Online at Carbonite (they won't backup RAW files, unfortunately), an external drive, the hard drive of my computer and a yearly backup to recordable Blu-ray disks. The online backup takes care of a natural disaster or fire destroying my office and the other methods may seem redundant, but if you've ever looked into a Grandmother's face whose only copy of a picture of that precious grandbaby is gone forever, you'll understand. Online storage, external hard drives and recordable media are all extremely cheap compared to that scenario...
Dec 23, 2013 08:52:26 #
ramapo
Loc: New Jersey
Never. I use once and reformat. It can happen but that would be very bad luck since the card is (or should be) very temporary storage.
The more important concern is your standard disk storage. The question is not if it will crash but when. I mirror my photo drive, do offsite to Crashplan and save anything I like to Smugmug.
The more important concern is your standard disk storage. The question is not if it will crash but when. I mirror my photo drive, do offsite to Crashplan and save anything I like to Smugmug.
Dec 23, 2013 09:04:35 #
Dec 23, 2013 09:12:54 #
Dec 23, 2013 09:20:30 #
achammar wrote:
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"I've never had a problem yet. Wondering how many of you have literally never had an SD card problem that caused you to lose files. I'm hoping a lot of you."
"I've never had a problem yet. Wondering how many of you have literally never had an SD card problem that caused you to lose files. I'm hoping a lot of you."
If this is a poll I suggest you try to find another way. Imagine the situation if every member of this forum were to respond! What a chaos!
Dec 23, 2013 09:22:09 #
I've never lost anything from an SD or CF card and never had a hard drive fail. But I don't take any chances and have three external backup drives for redundancy. I also run software to detect errors on my hard drive (have had a few issues) and then run repair to fix.
Dec 23, 2013 09:38:05 #
achammar wrote:
This is a unique question of curiosity and to calc... (show quote)
Never have lost a thing, so far, but now that I've said that, watch out for tomorrow :)
Dec 23, 2013 09:42:54 #
Dec 23, 2013 09:44:32 #
Dec 23, 2013 09:50:16 #
I fell into the lake with my camera with 49 photos from on the SD card. Only nine photos uploaded, so I placed it on paper towel atop a bed of rice/selica gel kitty litter in a Tupperware container, alongside the camera and flash. All survived. I was able to retrieve all of the photos within a few days.
Other than that, no problems in five years.
Other than that, no problems in five years.
Dec 23, 2013 09:57:02 #
I had problems with my cf cards several times, but eventually found them on my wife's desk. I now mark all my cards and haven't lost any pictures or cards since.
Dec 23, 2013 10:07:35 #
Dec 23, 2013 10:09:52 #
I have never had anything lost from an SD or CF card ever.
I always download to my laptop then once I confirm that all is done, I delete everything on the card pic file, then delete the DCIM file & all I leave is the hidden files.
Doing this, I've never had a mishap. of course I only use high quality cards. I'm still using a 512 mb LEXAR CF card from 10 years ago. I also have SAN DISC SD cards almost that old.
I always download to my laptop then once I confirm that all is done, I delete everything on the card pic file, then delete the DCIM file & all I leave is the hidden files.
Doing this, I've never had a mishap. of course I only use high quality cards. I'm still using a 512 mb LEXAR CF card from 10 years ago. I also have SAN DISC SD cards almost that old.
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