Help requested with Fuji... encryption?

My wife's Fuji S700 (don't laugh, it's good enough for what she does)
saves the pics on the card in such a way that Windows won't recognise
them, so I can't use a cardreader. The god-awful software that came
in the box works, but it's slow, doesn't allow for image deletion on
the card, and is a tad counterintuitive. Anybody know of a
workaround?

 

that camera shoots jpegs, and they should be readable by just about any
software, windows or macintosh. furthermore, no software is required
to use a card reader - just drag the files off the card to your hard
drive, regardless of what kind they are.

 

Linux.

 

I have an S5700 which is the European version and it generates jpg files for
pictures and avi files for movies.
I have a card reader on the front of my PC tower and my WinXP has no problem
at all recognising the files.
I use IrfanView to view & modify the photos, perhaps you need to get the
freeware program IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com/
Regards Mike.

 

Yes, exactly, just like every DSC I've ever owned.
This method simply doesn't work with the card used in the Fuji,
Windowsreports the card as being in an "unrecognized format".

 

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:03:02 -0500, Paul Allen

See my reply to "nospam".

 

Yes, exactly, just like every DSC I've ever owned.
This method simply doesn't work with the card used in the Fuji,
Windowsreports the card as being in an "unrecognized format".[/QUOTE]

windows says the entire *card* is unrecognized?? what version of
windows?

what capacity is the card? have you tried other cards, particularly
ones less than 1 gig in size? are you using xd or sd? if it's sd,
some older card readers can't read newer cards (i have no idea about
xd).

 

This is a _VERY_ wild guess, but here it goes anyway (from Wikipedia):

The “Secure” in Secure Digital comes from the card’s origin. To create
the SD card, Toshiba added encryption hardware to the already-existent
MMC, to calm music industry concerns that MMCs would allow for easy
piracy of music. (A similar scheme is the MagicGate standard used in
Memory Sticks.) In theory, the encryption would allow some enforcement
of Digital rights management[1] schemes on digital music, but the
capability is rarely used.

Maybe for whatever reason your camera supports that encryption and for
whatever reason you accidentally activated it. Maybe check the manual
and/or reset the camera to factory configuration.

jue

 

Thanks to all who responded. This was certainly a strange one! I
have two SanDisk 2GB SD cards, one standard and one UltraII. The
Ultra had some pictures on it, so I formatted the other one in
Windows, stuffed it in the camera, and it worked fine both recording
the image and viewing them via a reader. I then used Fuji's software
to dump the images on the UltraII card, and then attempted to format
it in Windows via the same reader (different comp, same OS, XP Pro
SP2). Recieved "unable to complete format" error message. So it
appears that the card is indeed defective in some way, even though it
works fine in the Fuji. I have problems comprehending
counterintuitive situations like this. ;-)
So it looks like it's back the the standard SD card for the time
being. Thanks again to all who offered advice.

PS... On a whim, I tried the UltraII card in the camera after the
failed format attempt and got a "card not initialized" error in the
camera. I formatted it in the camera, after which it behaved exactly
as before; perfectly happy in the camera for recording and copying of
images, but unreconizable in Windows. I binned it. ;-)