Problem transferring edited photos?

[cubsphan23]

Hello all! I am new here but i don't plan on being one of those guys who gets help with one question then disappears. I bought a 3200 a couple months ago and with the warm weather i'm just getting around to really working at it (not just snapping family portraits). I've been doing a bit of birding, trying to learn the best settings, etc. So last night I did some in-camera edits...just 5 or 6 photo edits total. I then transferred all 100+ of my photos to my laptop by ejecting my SD card from the camera and inserting it directly into my laptop. I copied dragged/dropped everything on the SD card into a new folder on my laptop, and i began reviewing photos. I noticed that the handful of in-camera edits I did were not showing up in my folder. I went back to the SD card directly (through the laptop) and no edited photos. So, I put the SD card back in the cam and i could see the edited photos just fine. I repeated the process a few times hoping to find my mistake but I couldn't figure it out.

I did notice that edited photos get assigned a file name beginning CSC rather than DSC, but i could not figure out why i couldn't view them on my laptop. Also the filename/numbers were different between the SD card and the new folder i had just dropped them into.

Anyway, I put the SD card back in the cam and deleted 90% of the photos, leaving only the edits and 5 others. I then put the SD card back into the laptop and this time it DID recognize the photos. Which i guess was good, but still confusing. After getting all the photos properly saved I tried reformatting the card, and i will take it out for more test shots soon and we'll see what happens.

Has anyone else encountered this same mistake (or glitch)? On vacations i typically shoot 2000+ photos and during down times or evenings I'm constantly reviewing and doing in-camera edits. I want to be sure I get this all figured out before my next vacation so i don't lose anything or have to re-do a bunch of editing or cropping.

Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks

 

[WayneF]

Welcome to the forum.

Sorry, I don't know the first thing about editing in the camera, I've never done it, but the edits are another file, created as copies of the first file, hence the name CSC.

So I wondered if there could be any confusion of looking at the original file, instead of the edited copy?

FYI, there is a larger and more detailed Reference manual for the D3200, free at
Nikon | Download center | D3200

 

[cubsphan23]

Thanks Wayne. No confusion on that part. In my new folder i viewed all files as a list and there weren't any of the CSC files, so definitely none of those transferred over. I'm going to shoot some more photos tonight or tomorrow and repeat the process to see what happens.

Thanks for the Manual link!

 

[nickt]

This just seems not possible. Maybe the sort order on the computer was not as expected? Maybe the files were sorted by date rather than file name or visa versa? I know my d3100 puts edits in the same folder with the name changed exactly as you say. There should be no way the computer misses the edits. Try it again with less files so you can be certain they were not overlooked. On windows, in file explorer, click on the name heading and the 'C' files should move to the top of the list. Click again, and they will move to the bottom. Or if you just did the edit, click on the 'date' heading and the recent edit should move to the top. You could also type a C or D into the file explorer search box and that would filter the files that you see.
You also say the files names were different in moving them from the card to the created folder. I can't explain that other than an error in your drag and drop and you missed part of the list. That could explain the edits not being seen on the computer, but yet they were again visible with the card back in the camera.
Still thinking.... getting back to sort order.... maybe the card view was sorted differently than the destination folder. So the csc files could have moved to a different position in the file list on your computer.
So in either case, unexpected sort order or bad drag and drop, repeating your test with a smaller number of files should confirm things are working fine.