Vista and photos

I am an amateur photographer and I having a problem transferring photos
(mostly jpegs) from my computer (and from my external hard drive) to flash
drives The problem is, when I copy photos to the flash drives about
one-tenth of them become corrupted. If I copy 500 perfectly fine photos,
fifty will be corrupted. The corruption can be anything from a line of
misplaced pixels, to a top half of a photo mixed with the bottom half, to
whole photos grayed out. When I use my computer with XP, no problem. I can
copy hundreds of photo at a time without a single corruption. But, with my
computer that uses Vista (Home Premium with SP 1), I get the corrupted
photos. Both computers are desktops and made locally. The Vista computer is
a 64 bit system with an AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core processor. It has 4GB of
Ram. The external hard drive is a Western Digital (USB). The flash drives
are either SanDisk or Kingston. Does anyone have any suggestions?.

blue17

"blue17" <> wrote:

>
>I am an amateur photographer and I having a problem transferring photos
>(mostly jpegs) from my computer (and from my external hard drive) to flash
>drives The problem is, when I copy photos to the flash drives about
>one-tenth of them become corrupted. If I copy 500 perfectly fine photos,
>fifty will be corrupted. The corruption can be anything from a line of
>misplaced pixels, to a top half of a photo mixed with the bottom half, to
>whole photos grayed out.

I've had something similar happen. My wife has a new camera that uses
those tiny SD cards. My Vista laptop has a built-in slot for those
cards. So she filled one with a bunch of photos (she had looked at
them using the screen on the back of the camera, they were fine). Take
the card out of the camera, stick it into the computer, copy the files
onto the computer's disk. Now when we viewed them, they were screwed
up in various creative ways. Same thing when we used the viewing
software directly on the card.

Leaving the card in the camera and using the USB cable that came with
it to do the transfer worked fine. Makes no sense to me.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

"Tim Slattery" <> wrote in message
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> "blue17" <> wrote:
>
>>
>>I am an amateur photographer and I having a problem transferring photos
>>(mostly jpegs) from my computer (and from my external hard drive) to flash
>>drives The problem is, when I copy photos to the flash drives about
>>one-tenth of them become corrupted. If I copy 500 perfectly fine photos,
>>fifty will be corrupted. The corruption can be anything from a line of
>>misplaced pixels, to a top half of a photo mixed with the bottom half, to
>>whole photos grayed out.
>
> I've had something similar happen. My wife has a new camera that uses
> those tiny SD cards. My Vista laptop has a built-in slot for those
> cards. So she filled one with a bunch of photos (she had looked at
> them using the screen on the back of the camera, they were fine). Take
> the card out of the camera, stick it into the computer, copy the files
> onto the computer's disk. Now when we viewed them, they were screwed
> up in various creative ways. Same thing when we used the viewing
> software directly on the card.
>
> Leaving the card in the camera and using the USB cable that came with
> it to do the transfer worked fine. Makes no sense to me.

Sounds like a card reader problem.

Black Vista version wrote:
> strange... !
>
> only on vista would such crap occur...
>
> good choice in an OS!!!!! lol
>
> Vista is crap is so many creative ways! its so horrible its amazing!

Obviously you're far too stupid to use Vista.
Go back to etch-a-sketch you idiot moron loser!

I have seen this happen copying directly from SD card or USB cable. My
recommendation is not copy so many photos at one time. I did this with over
200 photos and a few copied messed up with half of the picture cut out or
mangled.
--
Best regards,
Andre Da Costa
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com

"blue17" <> wrote in message
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>
> I am an amateur photographer and I having a problem transferring photos
> (mostly jpegs) from my computer (and from my external hard drive) to flash
> drives The problem is, when I copy photos to the flash drives about
> one-tenth of them become corrupted. If I copy 500 perfectly fine photos,
> fifty will be corrupted. The corruption can be anything from a line of
> misplaced pixels, to a top half of a photo mixed with the bottom half, to
> whole photos grayed out. When I use my computer with XP, no problem. I can
> copy hundreds of photo at a time without a single corruption. But, with my
> computer that uses Vista (Home Premium with SP 1), I get the corrupted
> photos. Both computers are desktops and made locally. The Vista computer
> is a 64 bit system with an AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core processor. It has 4GB
> of Ram. The external hard drive is a Western Digital (USB). The flash
> drives are either SanDisk or Kingston. Does anyone have any suggestions?.
>
> blue17
>