Unfinished download from camera

rkw624

Has anyone ever run into this? I was downloading off my Canon 20D after taking about 30 shots of wild turkey this morning. During the download the camera kept hanging up on this photo. I tried a few times but no go. I skipped over this and finished up and this is what was in the folder. The camera had about five more photos taken after this shot. All OK.

I then went back and dragged the photo from the camera seperately onto my desktop. That one was OK. Photoshop gave me a message of the unfinished one that it may be "truncated or not finished". Any ideas what happened? Never seen this before. Card going bad?

1. From camera to a folder:


from the folder and dragged onto my desktop.



Thank you for taking a look.

DonRicklin

What software are you using. Apparently you are downloading directly from the Camera? Do you still have that disk un reformated with that image. What happens if you try from a reader instead?

The forums I hangout at have reports of problems downloading direct from Canons, mainly with Lightroom.

Don

rkw624

LRmvcDonR wrote:

What software are you using. Apparently you are downloading directly from the Camera? Do you still have that disk un reformated with that image. What happens if you try from a reader instead?

The forums I hangout at have reports of problems downloading direct from Canons, mainly with Lightroom.

Don

I use Photoshop CS3. Download is directly from the camera to a folder. Folder to Photoshop CS3.

SloYerRoll

Do you use a USB or card reader?

rkw624

SloYerRoll wrote:

Do you use a USB or card reader?

USB

SloYerRoll

Thy a card reader.
It's considered best practice for memory card transfers. It protects your camera from possible voltage. It also doesn't rely on your cameras electronics to get the data off the card.

Anything is possible w/ electronics. But a card usually won't store half a good shot then just crap out of the rest of it.

Card readers only cost from 10bucks (low end) to 100 (high end) the only major difference is transfer speed. But when you get into high end, your shooting w/ some serious toys and have very expensive cards. I usually just take my 6GB and 4GB cards and start the Lr upload and walk away for a little bit to grab a bite or make calls etc. Then come back when the import is done.

DonRicklin

SloYerRoll wrote:

Thy a card reader.
It's considered best practice for memory card transfers. It protects your camera from possible voltage. It also doesn't rely on your cameras electronics to get the data off the card.

Anything is possible w/ electronics. But a card usually won't store half a good shot then just crap out of the rest of it.

Card readers only cost from 10bucks (low end) to 100 (high end) the only major difference is transfer speed. But when you get into high end, your shooting w/ some serious toys and have very expensive cards. I usually just take my 6GB and 4GB cards and start the Lr upload and walk away for a little bit to grab a bite or make calls etc. Then come back when the import is done.

This is the currently recomended practice, as stated. Save direct connection for tethered shooting. Besides, this way you can keep shooting while downloading.

Don

rkw624

LRmvcDonR wrote:

This is the currently recomended practice, as stated. Save direct connection for tethered shooting. Besides, this way you can keep shooting while downloading.

Don

I will do that and see what happens. Thank you.

pathfinder

I agree, use a card reader. 100%

Cameras are for taking pictures, and not meant for uploading.