Can't Copy Pictures To SD Card
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From: Abradaxis on 18 Mar 2010 17:00 Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. I tried creating a directory on the SD card, and copying them to the directory, but the same thing happens. I'm using the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi format device, but I don't think it has anything to do with the device. Any help greatly appreciated.
From: Pegasus [MVP] on 18 Mar 2010 17:12 "Abradaxis" <jsindler(a)career-objectives.com> wrote in message news:ODsfH4txKHA.1548(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard > drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture > photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb > capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD > card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my > first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after > transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high > res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY > OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. I tried > creating a directory on the SD card, and copying them to the directory, > but the same thing happens. I'm using the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi > format device, but I don't think it has anything to do with the device. > Any help greatly appreciated. Let's try a self-documenting copy method: - Click Start / Run / cmd{Enter} - Type the following commands: dir X:\ > c:\test.txt xcopy /s /c /d /y "S:\My Pictures" X:\ 1>>c:\test.txt 2>>&1 notepad c:\test.txt (Replace X: with the drive letter of your SD card and "S:\My Pictures" with the actual location of your pictures) dir X:\ >> c:\test.txt - Remove the repetitive stuff, then post the remaining lines here.
From: Alan Edwards on 18 Mar 2010 18:15 It is doing it because there are limits. The solution is to use sub folders. I suspect the limit for a flash drive may be similar to that of a zip drive. Read here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q39/9/27.asp MS-DOS: Directory and Subdirectory Limitations ....Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer http://dts-l.com/index.htm On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:00:20 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "Abradaxis" <jsindler(a)career-objectives.com> wrote: >Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard >drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture >photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb >capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD >card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my >first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after >transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high >res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY >OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. I tried >creating a directory on the SD card, and copying them to the directory, >but the same thing happens. I'm using the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi >format device, but I don't think it has anything to do with the device. >Any help greatly appreciated. >
From: John Inzer on 18 Mar 2010 19:05 Abradaxis wrote: > Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard > drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture > photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to > a 1gb capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to > the SD card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway > through my first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by > years), after transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since > they are not high res photos) I get a windows error something like > "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the > copy function. I tried creating a directory on the SD card, and > copying them to the directory, but the same thing happens. I'm using > the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi format device, but I don't think > it has anything to do with the device. Any help greatly appreciated. ============================= You can only copy a limited number of files into the root directory of the card... Simple solution...use folders. -- J. Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk
From: Don Phillipson on 18 Mar 2010 19:11
"Abradaxis" <jsindler(a)career-objectives.com> wrote in message news:ODsfH4txKHA.1548(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard > drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture > photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb > capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD > card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my > first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after > transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high > res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY > OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. Some of these digital frame gadgets are finicky about picture size as well as file format. You commonly find they display only 90 per cent of raw files. It may help to use a tool like Irfan_view to make copies of a uniform standard (size and dot density) you are sure the frame likes. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |