Re: Olympus Camedia D-340R

Frosted Flake wrote:
MCarter wrote:
Hi Ken.

You are right. The copied pic was not visible in the camera LCD. Only
the real photos were visible. But when I put the card (which is 16MB
btw) back in the card reader, only the pic is visible, in the root
directory, where I put it, and nothing else. No directories or
anything else.

Thanks for your help anyway.

MC

Ken Weitzel wrote:
Hi...

Got me confused, owned almost every Oly they made, many of the
Fuji's, and all of them have the dcim under the root, with another
under that specific to the camera maker.

This tree is created automagically by the camera - even if you
del the sub's, they come back next time you use it :)

Wonder if the card reader is reading? After you copied a
pic to the card, you definitely shouldn't be able to see it
using the camera lcd, but could you read it back?
Got a friend or neighbor who might let you visit and put
your card in their machine?

Oh, one other thought... you are aware that the max card
size for your camera is (I forget - either 8 or 16 megs)?
Definitely no larger. Don't know what the effect of putting
a larger one in might be, but...

If you are using/trying to use a larger card, might be
interesting to see if a neighbor/friend might let you
borrow a 2/8/16 meg smart media to see what happens.

One more idea... we still have an old Sandisk sm reader
connected to an old laptop. Use it for nothing other than
mass temp storage at the lake. When that laptop was upgraded
to xp the reader refused to even be recognized, Sandisk
had no xp compatible driver, but the 2000 driver works fine.
(xp got upset about the logo thing, but still works fine)

Can't offer anything about linux; know nothing at all
about 'nix.

Take care.

Ken

I've got one sitting right in front of me.

The directory structure is IM01OLYM

I had a problem sometime back when I formatted the card, out of the camera, with the wrong file system. It must be formatted as FAT, not FAT32 or anything else.

The card is 128Meg. Olympus did an upgrade on my camera shortly after I got it to allow larger than (I think) 32 Meg.

Try this -
Download all of the images from the camera using your serial connection so that they don't get lost.

Reformat the card in the camera - Press Erase (first to right of LCD on top) and green LCD Monitor simultaneously with cover closed (power off). Press OK (shutter release) to start formatting. After complete,

After formatting, the card reader should show only the one directory and it should be empty.

Take a picture.

Remove the card and insert it into your card reader. Make sure the reader can handle SmartMedia.

Yous hould see the directory at the root and the one image file in the IM01OLYM directory.

If that doesn't work, but you can still download pictures from the serial connection, it would suggest that the reader is is defective or not set up properly but I have never had to do anything with any of the readers that I have used.

Hi Frosted...

Think perhaps we're talking about different models here...
that camera was sold with a max card size of 8 megs, with
a factory upgrade (for a large fee) to 16 megs...

Be that as it may, wonder if M's isn't one of the ones that
was upgraded, and somehow inadvertently ended up with the
directories being hidden?

Suggest an experiment, M. Do the same thing any one of
several different ways...

Put it in your reader, and do a dir/ah to see what shows up.

Put it in your reader and do an attrib -r -h -s *.* and see
what happens.

Or, from dos just try a cd to both the dir name that
Frosted suggests, and try a cd to dcim. See what shows up.
(if dcim shows up, from there try cd 100olymp)

Just some more thoughts.

Take care.

Ken
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