I was unable to download pics from my fujifilm 2gb sd card to my pc when full (using card reader), but unable to view photos and when put back into finepix camera now says card error so cannot view pictures at all

Are you using internal memory or an SD card?
Internal is only 10mb, and if that gets full it happens real fast - the only thing you can do is get out the cable to connect to a PC and download the lot to a new file (call it Rescue, if you like).
If you are using an SD card, then pull the card, put it in an appropriate card-reader, and again download to your PC. If you don't have a card-reader, buy a new card (say 2Gb), put that in the camera and format it in camera. Put the old card in a safe place until you get a reader.

A program such as "Pandora Recovery" has worked for me when I had deleted photos off of a SD card.

Not as many photos I used the free version up to 1 Gb. Suggest attempting to copy, if possible, the 3.2gb to another drive before starting any recovery.

If priceless photos suggest finding a professional recovery service and pay the $$

Hopr this helps?

There are two possibilities that I can think of. 1) The SD card is full. You will need to copy the pictures off the SD card and onto your computer, then format the card. You can probably do this in the camera, but MAKE SURE you have copied the pictures you want to your computer because the format will erase everything. 2) The SD card is write protected. Look closely at the SD card there is a little slide switch that "locks" the SD card so that your camera cannot put any pictures on it. This slide switch must be in the unlocked position (or NOT locked).
Hope this helps.

Try to copy your photos from your camera via the computer.
do not use a card reader. see digital camera manual. :-)

that all depends on the model of your laptop, most current laptops have a slot for a standard sd card, if this is the case you will need a micro sd adapter.


if you dont have a port for an sd card you have 2 options, first you can buy a usb memory card reader (making sure it takes micro sd cards before you purchase) or, most mobile phones take the micro sd card so you can put it in your phone and either plug it into your laptop using a usb cable and try getting them that way, or if you can view the photos on your phone, bluetooth/email them across.

no disc for these cams...should be able to view pics straight from SD card thru a card reader to pc...(may have to go thru START..MY COMPUTER...LOCATE DRIVE CARD READER IS DESIGNATED AS....
also should be able to view pics on tv thru video cable attached to cam.

Copy the existing photos on to your PC, switch off the camera. Remove the SD card and format the SD-card using a SD-card reader, this will clear all the card contents. Now try using it in your Camera again. Ideally, you should be able to save photos on this SD card. Other way would be to insert another SD card into your camera and click photos and check whether those photos are being saved into the SD card(this can be done using display option in your digicam.)

Sounds like a MobileMate quirk Tanya. Use your USB cable connection to your PC/Camera interface and delete pics that way too see if this funny goes away.

If it does, and I believe it will, then it is a SanDisk issue not revising the File Allocation Table(FAT) after deleting the Pic File on the mem card.

You could also find out if this is just an SDHC SD card reader issue by using an older less dense standard 1 or 2Meg non-SDHC mem card in the reader and see if issue goes away.

The fallback of course to view and delete the pics on the camera before download, or download pics then note which pic file numbers you want deleted after viewing on PC, then put SD card back in camera and delete them there.

Another option for trial, is to cut and paste the whole DCIM folder, or sub pic folder to your PC from off the SD card using the card reader. The camera automatically generates subfolders under the DCIM folder if you completely remove(deleting by a cut or move), when you take your first picture on a camera with a DCIM but not sub pic folder. Try this first and I think you will find all pics will be deleted from camera that are in a subfolder under DCIM. If not, then cut or move the whole DCIM folder and create a new DCIM(empty) folder on the SD card using the PC and card reader. Of course using this method you cannot selective delete individual pics from the mem card. You would be deleting them all after the Folder cut or move from the SD card.

omg same thing keeps happening i have a vista and i try to download the photo's on my vista but it won't work

According to Fuji you camera can only use cards up to 512 meg.
Look here:
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/accessories/card/index.html#compati
Scroll down to find your model, then look across the row to where it says Yes, it's under the red coloumn 16 to 512 meg.