Can't Copy Pictures To SD Card

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Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard

drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture

photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb

capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD

card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my

first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after

transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high

res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY

OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. I tried

creating a directory on the SD card, and copying them to the directory,

but the same thing happens. I'm using the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi

format device, but I don't think it has anything to do with the device.

Any help greatly appreciated.
 
"Abradaxis" wrote in message

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> Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard

> drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture

> photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb

> capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD

> card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my

> first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after

> transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high

> res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY

> OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. I tried

> creating a directory on the SD card, and copying them to the directory,

> but the same thing happens. I'm using the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi

> format device, but I don't think it has anything to do with the device.

> Any help greatly appreciated.



Let's try a self-documenting copy method:

- Click Start / Run / cmd{Enter}

- Type the following commands:

dir X:\ > c:\test.txt

xcopy /s /c /d /y "S:\My Pictures" X:\ 1>>c:\test.txt 2>>&1

notepad c:\test.txt

(Replace X: with the drive letter of your SD card and "S:\My Pictures"

with the actual location of your pictures)

dir X:\ >> c:\test.txt

- Remove the repetitive stuff, then post the remaining lines here.
 
It is doing it because there are limits.

The solution is to use sub folders.

I suspect the limit for a flash drive may be similar to that of a zip

drive. Read here:



http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q39/9/27.asp

MS-DOS: Directory and Subdirectory Limitations



....Alan

--

Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer

http://dts-l.com/index.htm







On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:00:20 -0400, in

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, "Abradaxis"

wrote:



>Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard

>drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture

>photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb

>capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD

>card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my

>first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after

>transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high

>res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY

>OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. I tried

>creating a directory on the SD card, and copying them to the directory,

>but the same thing happens. I'm using the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi

>format device, but I don't think it has anything to do with the device.

>Any help greatly appreciated.

>
 
Abradaxis wrote:

> Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard

> drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture

> photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to

> a 1gb capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to

> the SD card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway

> through my first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by

> years), after transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since

> they are not high res photos) I get a windows error something like

> "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the

> copy function. I tried creating a directory on the SD card, and

> copying them to the directory, but the same thing happens. I'm using

> the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi format device, but I don't think

> it has anything to do with the device. Any help greatly appreciated.

=============================

You can only copy a limited number of

files into the root directory of the card...

Simple solution...use folders.



--



J. Inzer MS-MVP

Digital Media Experience



Notice

This is not tech support

I am a volunteer



Solutions that work for

me may not work for you



Proceed at your own risk
 
"Abradaxis" wrote in message

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> Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard

> drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture

> photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb

> capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD

> card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my

> first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after

> transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high

> res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY

> OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function.



Some of these digital frame gadgets are finicky about picture

size as well as file format. You commonly find they display

only 90 per cent of raw files. It may help to use a tool

like Irfan_view to make copies of a uniform standard (size

and dot density) you are sure the frame likes.



--

Don Phillipson

Carlsbad Springs

(Ottawa, Canada)
 
On 3/18/2010 2:00 PM, Abradaxis wrote:

> Running XPSP3. I have a few thousand scanned digit photos on my hard

> drive, and my wife has asked me to transfer them to a digital picture

> photo frame. The frame will be using an SD Card, and it's limited to a 1gb

> capacity. I knew I wouldn't be able to copy all the pictures to the SD

> card, but I was trying to get as many as possible. Halfway through my

> first hard drive subdirectory (I catalogued them by years), after

> transferring about 250 picures (way under a gb, since they are not high

> res photos) I get a windows error something like "ERROR CREATING DIRECTORY

> OR FILE," and Windows bounces me out of the copy function. I tried

> creating a directory on the SD card, and copying them to the directory,

> but the same thing happens. I'm using the SD card in a Stratitec USB multi

> format device, but I don't think it has anything to do with the device.

> Any help greatly appreciated.

>

>

Hi Abradaxis,



You don't say what file system is used, but my guess would be it is

either FAT16 or FAT32. In either case, both file systems limit the

number of files that can be saved in the root directory to 512 entries.



Note that even though in theory there can be 512 entries in the root

directory of a FAT drive, if long file names are used a single entry can

take up more than one of those 512 permissible slots in the root directory.



Sincerely,

C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T



CSD Computer Services



Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/

E-mail: c.joseph@csdcs.site90.net
 
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