Re: ..memory full

VolvoGirl · ‎07-21-2010

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.

Mom2Dogs · ‎03-09-2010

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!

Maria Louisa · ‎03-09-2010

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.

Mom2Dogs · ‎03-09-2010

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

glb613 · ‎03-09-2010

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.

Mom2Dogs · ‎03-09-2010

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....

glb613 · ‎03-09-2010

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.

Lynnj · ‎03-21-2010

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?