Something's strange with my camera's file... help?

you know the memory card-thingy you put in the slot of the camera, right? Previously, there had been almost 500 photos on it, and it was almost full. Then I brought the camera (a Casio EX-Z50 if information is necessary) over to a friend, where we loaded the photos to a computer with her camera still plugged up with my camera's memory card in it. After we realized it would take hours to get the whole thing uploaded, she cancelled the process and pulled her camera's usb port out without using the safely-remove-hardware feature first.

Now that the card is back in my camera, there are no files on it. Interestingly enough, they were all there (all of the almost 500 photos) when I put my camera on the usb to load images. And whenever I take new pictures, for some reason, the camera thinks it still has almost 500 photos on it so after only 3-5 new shots, it says 'memory full' :(

Help me understand and fix this! Thanks.

once you load your picture to your computer, you need to DELETE it from the memory card. you can do so by using "format function" on your camera. refer to user manual of your camera for details.

I ALSO SUGGEST you burn all of your picture to a CDROM after you put it on your computer.

CDs now costing less than 20 cents/pc and it's a good insurance policy if your computer crash or get a virus later on. (or some idiot delete them from your computer etc)

because some Pictures are priceless. you don't want to risk it when 20 cents can save your butt later on.

My first reaction is "that's why they have the safely remove feature", but I reguarly ram cards in and out of USB ports ignoring it, and I have never had a problem.

I'll bet putting the card into another camera somehow corrupted the files. You can try plugging it back into that camera and d/l ing the files, but the damage has probably been done.

Here's a file recovery program that might work for you. Don't do anything with the card until you try it -- success depends on not overwriting files.

http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundele...

HTH
V