I took my Sony DSC P200 digital camera to my vacation in EUROPE and loaded it up with a 4.0 gig Memory Stick Pro-Duo. We usually review our shot after each time we take it. After like the 250th shot, the camera LCD screen showed a FILE ACCESS error when we previewed the last shot. We turned it off and it seemed to work ok. We can preview the last shot, but not the prior ones. I thought this might be a memory stick glitch-might be too big of a memory stick for the camera. Q1: AM I CORRECT IN ASSUMING THIS? When we got home to check the pictures in the computer, NONE of the pictures we took (the ones after the 250th shot) in three cities came out and in addition to that, some pictures were replicated like a hundred times. Other pictures we couldnt access even though the properties of the pictures says it has something in there.
Q2: IS THERE A WAY TO ACCESS THOSE PICS THAT WE CANT OPEN? IS THERE A SOFTWARE TO RETRIEVE ALL THE MISSING SHOTS -EITHER FR THE CAMERA OR MEMORY? too big
go to yahoo search
type photo rescue Oh dear.
I take it you did not have any other memory sticks with you, so that is why you continued shooting after you got the file access error.
You have learned a good but costly lesson. These questions need to be addressed before you leave on any trip.
In your case two 2GB memory cards would have solved your need for a lot of room for images and stay within the 2GB limit your camera obviously has.
Unless your camera shoots in RAW and you are going to shoot in RAW, 2GB memory cards are enough so you don't have to change cards every few hours.
There are programs out there that can recover images lost on cards (usually because the image index has become corrupt by photographers deleting individual images on the card) but since they were probably not written to your card there will likely be no more images on the card than you already downloaded.
The safest way to manage your memory card is to copy your images to your computer, make sure they copied correctly and then format the memory card. This refreshes the card and writes a new image index file. | 