Photos are accessible on the camera but not on the chip to download. how can i get them onto the little chip?And how did this happen? I've taken 100's of photo's and just pulled out the chip, plugged it into my computer, erased them and started all over again. Now they are somehow "stuck" in the camera. thanks, Judy

Did you format the card in your camera before you started taking pictures? If not, that's why this happend as the file structure was not setup. But no sweat. First you'll need to recover your lost photos, and also save/backup all of your photos onto your computer. You'll likely need to use recovery software. Here's some very good freeware. Now AFTER you've saved all your photos onto your computer, format the card in your camera to rejuvenate it, and properly setup the file/folder structure to prevent this from happening again. Note that this will erase the card, so only do this after you've saved/recovered all the photos onto your computer.

Actually, you still might be able to get those photos back, even though they've been erased. Try not to take any more pics until you've recovered your photos, take the card out of the camera. This is to reduce the chance of you overwriting some of your "lost" photos. There are many good freeware photo recovery software options that may help you recover your photos. This article reviews and outlines several of the better ones.
This sounds like the problem may have occurred because you might not have formatted the card in your camera as recommended by the manufacturer. If true, after you've recovered your photos, format the card in your camera using the camera's format feature. This will prevent this from happening again.

Take no more pics until you've recovered your photos, take the card out of the camera. This is to reduce the chance of you overwriting some of your "lost" photos. There are many good freeware photo recovery software options that may help you recover your photos. This article reviews and outlines several of the better ones. Now after you've recovered your photos, consider formatting the card in the camera to prevent this from happening again.

Take no more pics until you've recovered your photos, take the card out of the camera. This is to reduce the chance of you overwriting some of your "lost" photos. There are many good freeware photo recovery software options that may help you recover your photos. This article reviews and outlines several of the better ones:

No, unfortunately there's no way to batch insert a date to a bunch of photos you've already taken. If you're wanting a date on all the photos I'd suggest going into the menu and there's an option so that the date and time is recorded onto the photos.

Assuming the photos were taken on the SD1100 and haven't been edited on the computer, you can use a card reader and copy the photos onto a card. If the photos were taken on a different camera, or edited on a computer, the camera most likely won't show them.

The videos taken should be in the same directory as the photos, but with a different extension. If you look at your memory card in windows explorer, the directory structure looks like "drive letter: \ DCIM \ 100SANYO \ SANY0001.JPG" or "drive letter: \ DCIM \ 100SANYO \ SANY0002.MP4"

The .MP4 files are the videos. You can copy them from that directory to somewhere on the computer where you can edit them or put them onto DVD.

I would recheck all of my settings on the camera. Go to the menu and check everything one by one. Your card may be damaged also. Do you have another card to try? Do you have your manual? If not you can to to www.olympus.com to download a new manual specifically for your camera and it may address this issue. Good luck.

what do you mean by chip? DOK?

If the photos are important the first thing you want to do is get a memory card reader and use it to get the pictures off the card. A SD card reader can be found for about $5 bucks online and it will let you simply COPY and paste the pictures onto a folder on your computer. Make sure you COPY and not CUT because in case something goes wrong during the transfer you won't lose your precious photos.

It is possible that the camera driver is corrupted or deleted on your computer. Honestly it is not worth the hassle to deal with the camera drivers... it is much easier (and faster) to transfer the photos using a card reader.