Originally posted by tuco I had a camera that I couldn't download off of it for some reason and instead of figuring it out I just yanked the card out and put it in a USB SD card reader and plugged it into the computer and got the pictures off that way. I would delete files from it once I moved them over.
Then one day the card would not hold anymore pictures. When I did a listing, it was pretty much empty via the GUI. I opened a shell and looked at it the old fashion way. I noticed a hidden directory that was the "trash can". The operating system put deleted pictures there and it must have created that directory too.
Needless to say I blew the trash directory away and all of sudden had much more space. Do you have something like that going on?
I don't have an English User Manual, so I'm guessing here. I *THINK* what happened is this:
I only have two cards, a 32GB which went in slot 1, and a 2 GB which was in slot 2. I somehow told the camera to record RAW DNG files (as opposed to jpg, etc). But apparently I told it to write to both cards simultaneously. When the 2GB card filled after 24 shots, the camera would not fire, and the LCD said "memory card full". Well I assumed the camera would write, first to card 1, then card 2 when 1 was filled. But it must not have done that. My clue to the answer, was I took card 2 out of the camera, then was able to test shoot a quick 100 shots, and the camera said it still had room for several hundreds more. Now I need to figure out how to tell the camera to only use card 1, and when that fills, then use card 2!!
Thanks for the help.
Dave