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..memory full

Mom2Dogs — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:16:50 GMT

I have a Samsung digital camera that came up with the message 'memory full'. I always take off my photos and put them on my IMac so I don't keep photos on my camera but I still have the message.

I googled all I could about the memory card and also got the pdf instructions for my camera but the directions I got to delete the internal memory made no sense!! Do I need a memory card, if I don't store photos on the camera what is the card for, or I know I could also purchase a new memory card but what I'd really like to do is erase the internal memory but need advice, if anyone has any for me! Thanks!!

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ChynnaBlue — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:30:08 GMT

If you can link the PDF file, maybe someone else can read it and see if it makes sense to them so they can better explain it to you.

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glb613 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:44:22 GMT

Some cameras have internal memory but it's very small. Most people need to use a SD card. You need to get into the menu and delete the photos from the internal memory and make sure it's set to place photos on the SD card.

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Mom2Dogs — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:46:32 GMT

On 6/12/2014 glb613 said:
Some cameras have internal memory but it's very small. Most people need to use a SD card. You need to get into the menu and delete the photos from the internal memory and make sure it's set to place photos on the SD card.

this is what I have been trying to do but even reading the manual has not helped to figure out how to get there.

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glb613 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:49:55 GMT

Which model do you have? Have you formatted the card?

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Mom2Dogs — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:53:30 GMT

The camera is a Samsung BL 1050. I have had the camera for years, so I am not sure about formatting...I think we just bought a card, put it in and took photos!

I always used to feel pretty confident about electronics and messing around with things but any more I don't have a clue......

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hckynut — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:38:09 GMT

On 6/12/2014 momtodogs said:
The camera is a Samsung BL 1050. I have had the camera for years, so I am not sure about formatting...I think we just bought a card, put it in and took photos!

I always used to feel pretty confident about electronics and messing around with things but any more I don't have a clue......

We don't have a Samsung camera but all the cameras we have had that use an SD card usually have a: menu/settings/memory=choose between internal or memory card

The Fuji my wife now has automatically switches to SD memory mode when a card it put into the card slot. The SD then becomes the "default" memory setting. Most cameras that have memory cards slots also have an option that comes up asking "format card" or something like that.

How big a card can be used in this camera? Never mind I see you can use a 4G card. Seems to me if you put in a card something would become and option as to which memory the user chooses. If you can put a card it and it shows the memory is going to the card I wouldn't even fool around with the internal memory, but that is just me.

I looked up this camera and it has little memory, only 17mb Flash memory which nowadays is pretty small.

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VolvoGirl — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:57:04 GMT

How have you been putting the pictures on your Mac? Do you take the card out of the camera and plug it into the Mac or plug the camera into the Mac? You might be copying the pictures to your Mac but not deleting them from the card. Maybe your card is actually full.

If it's saying the internal memory is full I bet you can see them and delete them by first taking the card out of the camera and seeing if they display. Unless you first need to copy them to the card to save them.

I looked at the pdf manual and didn't see how to access or delete the internal memory but here's the link

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200811/20081121151844625/BL1050_English.pdf

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Mom2Dogs — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:58:41 GMT

Thanks VolvoGirl for looking at the manual...

I plug the camera into my IMac and a folder comes up and I take the photos out of the folder and put on my desktop. I have deleted everything as well as the empty folder but it still says 'memory full' (not internal memory full)....could I just need a new card?

I'll take the card out and see what happens. Thank you for your assistance.

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glb613 — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:03:34 GMT

On 6/12/2014 momtodogs said:
Thanks VolvoGirl for looking at the manual...

I plug the camera into my IMac and a folder comes up and I take the photos out of the folder and put on my desktop. I have deleted everything as well as the empty folder but it still says 'memory full' (not internal memory full)....could I just need a new card?

I'll take the card out and see what happens. Thank you for your assistance.

Really? When I connect my camera into my iMac, iPhoto opens and imports my photos. I have the option to delete or keep the photos on the SD card. Why would you want them on your desktop?

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VolvoGirl — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:04:39 GMT

On 6/12/2014 momtodogs said:
Thanks VolvoGirl for looking at the manual...

I plug the camera into my IMac and a folder comes up and I take the photos out of the folder and put on my desktop. I have deleted everything as well as the empty folder but it still says 'memory full' (not internal memory full)....could I just need a new card?

I'll take the card out and see what happens. Thank you for your assistance.

Yeah, it sounds like it's not clearing them off the card when you put them on your Mac. See if there is a setting somewhere when you copy them that says to delete after copying. Or when you are sure all the pictures got copied right then reformat the card in the camera to clear it. I don't automatically delete my card when I copy them anymore since 1 time it messed up copying them. I wait until I know I got them all then I delete my card.

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Mom2Dogs — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:25:13 GMT

On 6/12/2014 hckynut said:
On 6/12/2014 momtodogs said:
The camera is a Samsung BL 1050. I have had the camera for years, so I am not sure about formatting...I think we just bought a card, put it in and took photos!

I always used to feel pretty confident about electronics and messing around with things but any more I don't have a clue......

We don't have a Samsung camera but all the cameras we have had that use an SD card usually have a: menu/settings/memory=choose between internal or memory card

The Fuji my wife now has automatically switches to SD memory mode when a card it put into the card slot. The SD then becomes the "default" memory setting. Most cameras that have memory cards slots also have an option that comes up asking "format card" or something like that.

How big a card can be used in this camera? Never mind I see you can use a 4G card. Seems to me if you put in a card something would become and option as to which memory the user chooses. If you can put a card it and it shows the memory is going to the card I wouldn't even fool around with the internal memory, but that is just me.

I looked up this camera and it has little memory, only 17mb Flash memory which nowadays is pretty small.

The camera is old that is why the memory is probably so small. I think I have looked at every setting but I have yet to see anything about memory settings, I'll keep looking. I might throw in the towel and buy new but it's like my check book when I reconcile the account, I want to find that penny that is throwing me off!

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Maria Louisa — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:58:34 GMT

I just had this problem with my Fuji digital camera. Took it to my local Dodd camera store and explained the problem. The nice lady that waited on me explained all I needed to do was to "format" my camera; she said that often when pictures are deleted "manually" although the picture disappears sometimes it remains in the memory card. She pulled out my memory card and was able to determine that there were about 70 pictures and offered to place them on disk for me if I wanted.

The cost was $2.50 and I said yes, even though these pictures were already on my computer, there were pictures of family members from almost 10 years ago. So she copied these pictures on to a CD, then formatted my memory card for me.

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Mom2Dogs — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:01:38 GMT

Maria Louisa....sounds like what I need to do but can't figure out how to do it!!

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glb613 — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:43:33 GMT

On 6/13/2014 momtodogs said:
Maria Louisa....sounds like what I need to do but can't figure out how to do it!!

Have you been in your camera's menu? There is an option to format the card. You need to look at everything listed in the menu until you find it.

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Mom2Dogs — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:44:14 GMT

On 6/13/2014 glb613 said:
On 6/13/2014 momtodogs said:
Maria Louisa....sounds like what I need to do but can't figure out how to do it!!

Have you been in your camera's menu? There is an option to format the card. You need to look at everything listed in the menu until you find it.

I'm going to try and find the menu and 'fix' the problem this evening....

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glb613 — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:08:33 GMT

On 6/13/2014 momtodogs said:
On 6/13/2014 glb613 said:
On 6/13/2014 momtodogs said:
Maria Louisa....sounds like what I need to do but can't figure out how to do it!!

Have you been in your camera's menu? There is an option to format the card. You need to look at everything listed in the menu until you find it.

I'm going to try and find the menu and 'fix' the problem this evening....

My Canon has a menu button right on the camera. Yours should too.

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Lynnj — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 02:29:11 GMT

You know...this is exactly what got Jodi arias busted with her pictures of the crime scene. She thought the destroyed the memory card. Then she threw the camera in the washing machine for good measure. But the crime pictures saved to the camera internal memory, and despite a spin cycle in the washing machine, the crime lab was able to retrieve the pictures from the internal memory. Which showed pictures of the actual murder, and one picture in particular of her foot while she was dragging a bloody body across the floor. Funny thing about this whole thing is that she claimed to be a professional photographer.....but didn't know about the internal camera memory saving pictures as well as the card memory. She's an idiot!! But anyway....I don't know the answer. Can you post the model so we can look up instructions and see if we can make sense out of it to help you?

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VolvoGirl — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 04:42:30 GMT

She did post the model and I posted the link to the manual, but it didn't come out clickable.

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Mom2Dogs — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:19:57 GMT

I figured it out!! Thanks everyone!