Re: Olympus Camedia D-340R

MCarter wrote:
Many thanks Frosted. That was the answer. I saved the photos and
reformatted the card in the camera as you suggested, and lo and behold
there was the IM01OLYM directory. I took a couple of pics, and there
they were in the directory.

Thanks again Ken for your input. I'll keep the commands in your last
post on file on file.

Michael

Frosted Flake wrote:

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.


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Glad I could help.

With Windows XP, there are two formatting choices for the SmartMedia reader - FAT and FAT32. FAT32 allows storage of more, larger files but FAT is what the D-340R uses.

If I format in the reader, I make sure it's FAT.

If I have problems after that, I format in the camera.

If that doesn't work, buy new media (if you can find it).

If that doesn't work, it's a good excuse to buy a different camera (just make sure you get one that uses standard AA's - no proprietary batteries, if you please).



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