Q&A: Pictures Missing on the Memory Card
I just copied a batch of photos back to my digital camera's memory card, hoping to display them on a TV using the video cable. But the camera won't display any of the pictures! What's going on? Do I need to use a special file format? I kept the images in JPEG format, so I assumed this would work.
--Jane Chapman, Bend, Oregon
There's an easy fix, Jane. Many digital cameras need to find the pictures in a specific folder on the memory card--if they're anywhere else, the camera can't see them.
To solve your problem, erase all the data from your card (you can use the camera's card format command, for instance), then take just one picture. Now take the memory card out of the camera and insert it into your PC's card reader. Find out where it stored the lone picture and place the rest of your images there. The camera should have no trouble displaying them now.
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