Deleting photos from memory card

[Ali Chappussy]

I took a load on a recent hoilday and have downloaded them to PC.

Went to delete pictures from card and I can't get rid of two because the card says they are protected? images. Now, I must say I haven't 'protected' them, I don't know how to for one thing. Can anyone advise me how to get them off the card?

Camera is a Nikon D3100.

Cheers all

[DIW35]

Have you tried re-formatting the card? It's what I do rather than delete the images.

[mrmr96]

Is it an SD card with the write protection switch flicked?

[Ali Chappussy]

mrmr96 said:

Is it an SD card with the write protection switch flicked?

It is an SD card and I'll check. What I can't understand is if the switch is flicked, how I could delete all bar two pictures.

[mrmr96]

Ali Chappussy said:

mrmr96 said:

Is it an SD card with the write protection switch flicked?

It is an SD card and I'll check. What I can't understand is if the switch is flicked, how I could delete all bar two pictures.

Sorry, didn't realise that you'd been successful with the other photos. That's just weird then. I'd reformat the card in the camera and be done with it.

[Ali Chappussy]

DIW35 said:

Have you tried re-formatting the card? It's what I do rather than delete the images.

Once I have all the images on my external drive, I clear the card.

[Ali Chappussy]

mrmr96 said:

Sorry, didn't realise that you'd been successful with the other photos. That's just weird then. I'd reformat the card in the camera and be done with it.

Cheers, that's probably the way to go.

[markmullen]

Ali Chappussy said:

Once I have all the images on my external drive, I clear the card.

If you leave them on the card till you next need the card, then format it in camera you've got it as a backup should something go bad with the copies on your hard drive.

[mrmr96]

markmullen said:

If you leave them on the card till you next need the card, then format it in camera you've got it as a backup should something go bad with the copies on your hard drive.

Sort of, but you're better off having a proper back up solution, else you're high and dry as soon as you re-use the card.

[markmullen]

mrmr96 said:

Sort of, but you're better off having a proper back up solution, else you're high and dry as soon as you re-use the card.

Absolutely, I shot a wedding on Saturday, smaller cards (4-8Gb) as main card and a 32Gb SDHC in the second slot of each camera as backup, small cards changed frequently and put into a crushproof and waterproof case in my inside pocket, as soon as I'd finished I dropped the backup cards at my mum's house, downloaded the main cards onto my Macbook Pro and onto two external drives, took one of the externals and the main cards to my dad's house ensuring the images were on 5 separate devices over 3 locations.

I was just suggesting not formatting them as a day to day extra layer of redundancy.

[LongQ]

Don't know about Nikon but Canon's allow you to protect images so you don't accidently delete them. Easy to inadvertently set the flag when scanning the images. Should be able to un-protect when you are ready to do so.

[GetCarter]

/\ Nikon is the same... look for the little key icon.

[Ali Chappussy]

mrmr96 said:

Sort of, but you're better off having a proper back up solution, else you're high and dry as soon as you re-use the card.

I have a 500Gb external drive which I put my photos on. Nothing else goes on there so there's plenty of room for a good few years.

Thanks for everyone's input to my thread, it's nice to see people helping each other out in this day and age.

[mrmr96]

Ali Chappussy said:

mrmr96 said:

Sort of, but you're better off having a proper back up solution, else you're high and dry as soon as you re-use the card.

I have a 500Gb external drive which I put my photos on. Nothing else goes on there so there's plenty of room for a good few years.

Thanks for everyone's input to my thread, it's nice to see people helping each other out in this day and age.

Ok, that does sound a bit like storage (not backup), unless the ext drive is a copy of stuff which is also on the computer?