1 GB SD card not full

[teleboy]

I am trying to put photos on a 1 GB SD card. I can only get 317 MB on the card With 650 MB free. I have tried different cards but get the same result. Am I doing something wrong or do I need to try something else.

[CodeBubba]

Originally Posted by teleboy

I am trying to put photos on a 1 GB SD card. I can only get 317 MB on the card With 650 MB free. I have tried different cards but get the same result. Am I doing something wrong or do I need to try something else.

Are you trying to put all the photos in the root directory on the card? If that's the case you might be running out of filename entries. It's not about the actual amount of storage space. FAT tables used to have a limit of about 112 files for the root directory - I'm not sure what the limitation of a FAT32 root directory is, however subdirectories have no limit to the number of filenames that can be stored.

Create a directory on the SD card called Pictures ... put them under the subdirectory and you should not run into the limitation of how many files can be copied there.

-CB

[teleboy]

Thanks for that. I tried it & it is now ok.
Not being familiar with storing on cards I created the problem myself.
Thanks again.