Blinking Green Light - cannot upload - dammit

Hi All,

I'm on a tough deadline for a project and have now found a flashing green light next to the memory card slot area.

I cannot upload nor will my Mac detect that the D3 is hooked up to my laptop.

Does anyone know what this means???? Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Sarah

Can you see the card if it is removed from the camera and put in a reader?

i just plopped it into my reader...let's see what happens.

If you can see the card in the reader, then the card is still good and we need to trouble shoot down the line. I would try a different cord from the computer to the camera, to eliminate a bad cord. If that doesnt do it, then I would do a card and battery pull on the body. Leave it for 10 to 15 seconds and reinsert, and try again. If that doesnt fix it, I would suspect a problem in the body.

yay! i popped in one card in my reader and i'm now uploading images.
i left the other card in the D3. i turned the camera on/off. it's still blinking.
hmmmmm

I would do the battery and card pull. I had this with my D3100 once, after inserting my card. The pull cleared it up.

oh wait, there's something weird happening.

i uploaded MOST of the images but some reason, i am not allowed to upload the balance of the images. what is this??

Did you copy and paste or cut and paste? Do you have some of the photos locked?

no, i did not do anything. i'm just doing a basic upload through iPhoto.

i have not locked anything. strange. i'm trying all sorts of things. i'm going to try to manually pull them off the card right now. give me a minute.

Ok. I have never used a Mac, so I can not help with software issues.

ok, so this is very strange. when i go to open up the card on my computer desktop, i get this image. (see attached)

am i screwed? it's so strange because i see the images pop up on my iPhoto program but i cannot seem to find the actual hi-res file.

I would suspect a corrupt card, but I am not 100% sure on that feeling. There are a few Mac users here, I am hoping they can help quickly enough for you. Sorry.

thanks P! you've been super helpful. i'm going to have to rough this one out for the next few hours.

Which card are you using? Some of them come with a recovery disk so that you can supposedly recover your pics. Was it writing to the card while you were shooting?

Sorry for your troubles. Good luck.

oh wow. i think i'm in for it. i had my whole portugal/spain trip on this.

my card is a Lexar Professional UMDA, 4GB, 300x speed, compact flash.

i will look for that backup. thanks! *sniff*

Ouch. I feel for you. I just lost some photos because of a corrupt drive . . . didn't back up enough. I won't make that mistake again :-(

If you put the card back in the camera, can you see your pictures? This would be the first thing I would check BEFORE playing around with recovery programs.

sandcaker said:

oh wow. i think i'm in for it. i had my whole portugal/spain trip on this.

my card is a Lexar Professional UMDA, 4GB, 300x speed, compact flash.

i will look for that backup. thanks! *sniff*

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First, before you get too carried away, take the card to a local computer store and see if you can upload the images to a WINDOWS based system.

Second, if the images can be uploaded, burn them to a dvd.

My gut feeling is that the card needs to be re-formatted in the camera. When you do that, assign a unique name to the file folder. This acts as an impromptu

partition on the card. That way you limit the amount of damage done by a faulty card.

Hope this helps.

Have you tried putting a different card in your camera? Maybe some images are left in the buffer and the camera needs to write them somewhere.
Just throwing something else out there. Keep us posted.

May I ask, did you have another card in the second card slot? One of the reasons I have (and prefer) shooting with the D3 for my important shoots is the dual card slot. Or did you just have one card in?

The rest of the advice I could give you, I see my learned colleagues have already given to you.

Best of luck my friend, I hope you can recover the images. I hate when a card decides to play up. But that is what I suspect has happened to you.