Can't Copy Pictures To SD Card

[Abradaxis]

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.

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

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.

 

[Alan Edwards]

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

 

[John Inzer]

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

 

[Don Phillipson]

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.

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

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

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