Problems with playback folders and memory card

Hi Everyone

I'm a newbie to the site and hope you can help me.

I have a D3200 (birthday present) and am having issues with retrieving photos.

Took a series of photos at dance competition. Counter shows number of photos taken. Can look at them.

Take new photos with different settings and when I go to look at them only the latest photos are visible. Counter will show 14/266 but will only playback the 14 pictures.

When I plug the card into my PC it shows that 1/2 the memory is used by only 14 pictures are visible.

I formatted the card before original use a few weeks ago.

Please please help there are some precious pictures on the card

Thanks

Rob

Welcome to the forum,is it possible they are in different folders on the card,not sure how this would work but your camera seams to know they are there.

I've set the playback to ALL

When the card inserted into myPC it's only showing the last batch of pictures

Use something other than your photo app on your PC to check the card. iPhoto and Aperture on my Mac default to show only the latest batch of photos (for importing), not everything. Maybe you need to change what you are viewing to "all" somehow differently. That sounds like the most likely cause.

Like Jonathan said, use something else to look at the card. Using Windows, right? I would use Windows explorer and examine the card, folder by folder. When you formated the card, it was formated in-camera? Always format in the camera.

It sounds to me like you are plugging your camera directly into your PC and Windows is prompting to import your photo's for you. If that's the case, Windows "knows" which photos on your card have been imported already, skips those and only imports photos that have not been imported previously.

The better solution, in my opinion, is to either change the default behavior from "Import" to "Open Folder to View Files" or, and better yet, get an SD card reader. With this latter option you'll pull the card out of your camera and use Windows Explorer to move files from the SD card to your hard drive.

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The most important question here, did you format your new memory card in your PC, or in your Nikon 3200? Windows will format your memory card, but has no instructions to install the Directory or (Folder) needed to store your photos in on the memory card. Your 3200 will format the card, and will install the necessary directory, or folders to store your photos in.

The second thing: When your memory card is in the PC, and you are trying to open files, make sure you highlight open (all files). You should find you photos. Hit control A, and put your cursor on one of files, right click, and copy. You can (paste) these files in a temporary file on your PC.

Remove your memory card, insert in the 3200, format from your menu, remove card, install in PC, find you temp file with your photos, control A, right click, copy, find you memory card in Explore, double click, you should be in the correct directory in the memory card, and then paste your images back in the card.

Simply put, always format your memory cards in your Nikon camera.

Thank you all so much for your replies.
The card was formatted in the camera.

A friend recommended a recovery programme, which I used and got my photos back - Phew!

However I think it must be the card at fault - so will be buying another card today to see if that solved the in camera problem

Thanks again

Good. Make sure you get a fast card (Class 10, for instance). Not all SD cards are similar so, if you have the budget, get one that works for your needs in terms of data transfer speeds.

Thanks All
Have spoken to Nikon and it was the card at fault - supposedly a brand not recommended by Nikon - meant the index wasn't recording so the camera could not read the card

Have now bought a SanDisk Extreme Pro UI with a write speed of 'up to 95mbs write speed'

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