Day pictures are now white and will take1good night pict then 5-8 are black. Camra is almost a year old. Was taking great Picts.

It sounds like your cameras screen has or is going out. Your best option would be to try and link your camera to a computer / Laptop and see if you can up load them

If you don't want to delete them you need to either connect the camera to your computer and download them to a folder, then delete them from the camera, or remove the memory card and plug it into your computer and do the same, then put the card back in the camera.

Here is the manual for your Olympus x-42. Go to page 12 to see how to set the date on the picture you take.

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I hope I helped you!

It's no problem at all to get them back. Please see this post for several free software that you can download. You'll need to use a card reader with the memory card alone these programs though:


All the download links listed in the article are through CNET, primarily to verify that these are malware free software, and to give you a chance to read user reviews on the software before downloading.

Hey this is tbirdfan1 AGAIN I GOT DISCONNECTED I HAVE THE PICTS
I THINK THAT THE PARTTHAT BLEW IS PART OF THE WHITE BOX THAT I SEEN IN THE PICT BUT CAN YOU REENTER THE CHAT

Plug in the USB transfer cable (to the camera), other end into your computer. The computer should recognize the picts and start the download.
After it is complete, you can now insert the external memory device (either into the computer (if it takes them) or into the camera.)

**If you plugged into the computer - you can drag and drop the picts from the folder on the PC to the memory card (the computer thinks that it is an external hard drive).

**If you place the card into the camera, connect the usb cable between the camera and the PC. Now, you can drag and drop the picts from the folder on the PC to the camera memory card (the computer thinks that it is an external hard drive).

That is all there is to it.... because the PC thinks that the memory card is an external hard drive, you can move stuff to/from it just like any hard drive. Neat, huh!!!

Your picts go to the memory card correct ? How does the internal memory come into play here - can you select which it's storing on as this sounds like the issue. I would buy a 1gb or 2gb memory card for 30$ and you can take ~ thousand picts :-)

Try NOT connecting your camera to your computer.


The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.


Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa.

remove battery and or reset by inserting paperclip in reset hole near battery. try formatting the stick if this doesnt work. you will lose all saved picts so back up picts. to cpu

you can get a memory card reader at any walmart or wolf camera and you can tfer the pictures that way. your data connection or cable might be having a problem. you can pick up the card reader for around 15 off ebay maybe cheaper. hope this helps