Problems with FujiFilm 2Gb XD card.

Try connecting the camera directly to the computer via its USB cable and transferring the images that way. If that works and the images can be opened OK, there's a problem with your reader or its USB cable. If you have the same problem when transferring images directly from the camera, try transferring them to a different computer and see whether that works properly. If you can get the pictures copied to a computer that can open them, try reformatting the card in the camera, using the camera's menu commands. Sometimes a faulty card format can cause problems similar to yours.

Note: Do NOT delete pictures from the card or reformat the card using your Mac — do those tasks only with the camera's menu commands. Editing the contents of a card with a Mac can sometimes screw up the card's directory so the camera doesn't read it or write to it properly, or at all. Much better to let the camera handle all changes to the card's contents.

Have you looked at the Fuji web site for support? Here's what's at http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digitalcameras/support/compatiwinmac.html:

- The Fuji software is compatible with OS X thru 10.4.10
- They have two USB drivers that will work with Leopard: SM-R1/R2 and DPC-UD1. DPC-R1 is compatible with 10.4.3
- Finepix viewer runs under Leopard
- Hyper-Utility software is compatible on OS X Tiger and earlier
Do you have the latest 1.02 F30 firmware loaded?

Have you looked over the Fuji support database at http://search.fujifilm.co.jp/support_e/digitalcamera/qanda/index.asp

I can download from Canon and Sony cameras, on OS X Tiger, with no issues, so the first place I'd look is towards a Fuji solution.

I have the F30, but do not use a card reader. This seems like a drive format issue. I was never able to get a PC card adapter to work with the 1GB xD cards. Also this camera does not have a USB mass storage mode, so the only reliable method for import I found was to use Apple Image Capture set to launch when I connect the camera via USB and power it up.

i use an old sandisk reader for XD cards out of an Olympus P&S camera. works fine.

think this is the reader

A cable came with my camera. Note that it is not a standard mini-USB to USB.

louie wrote:
A cable came with my camera. Note that it is not a standard mini-USB to USB.

doesn't matter, readers come with their own cable if it needs one. some are just like a usb thumb stick. getting a card reader will solve your issues.

kmac1036: The first post in this thread makes it plain that Garreth, the OP, has a card reader and is able to copy his photos to his Powerbook via the reader. His problem is that he can't open the pictures after transferring them, though the camera opens them just fine. That suggests to me that the pictures are corrupted during the transfer. So I've suggested that he transfer the pictures directly from the camera to the computer through the camera's USB cable, to get the card reader and its USB cable out of the process.

Under almost all circumstances, I agree that a card reader expedites and simplifies the transfer process. In this particular case, I'm recommending bypassing it for test purposes.

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eww wrote:
kmac1036: The first post in this thread makes it plain that Garreth, the OP, has a card reader...

I didn't quote the OP, I quoted Louie which stated clearly that he was having trouble with his camera transfering files... I was answering louie as he had a response to my statement earlier in the thread. FYI 🙂

Well, no, I have no problem transferring directly from the camera. And while I haven't used a USB card reader at all, I have tried Sandisk PC card slot adapters for CF and xD cards, and they seem to have problems when larger than some size, such as 1GB (I forget what size this seems to occur at). No one on these forums seemed to have a solution; I gave up on readers and connect the camera directly to the USB. The Fuji F30 includes the special USB cable required.

Regarding card readers, I seem to recall some incompatibilities as 1GB xD were introduced - perhaps 2GB cards are also unrecognizable by some devices. There's also something different about the xD type M and H IIRC. I think my owner's manual warns about cards when 1GB was the maximum available.

Louie: SanDisk, despite being a major manufacturer of flash memory media, was inexplicably the last to produce card readers (including those in the PC Card format) that could handle cards of 1GB nd larger. In addition, there were severe problems reading all xD cards of all sizes on Macs for a while after Olympus and Fuji released that card format. I had such an awful time with the xD cards my daughter's Olympus camera used that we actually replaced the $300 camera with a different brand that uses SD cards; those have never given me any trouble at all. I suspect that if you bought a SanDisk xD-capable PCMCIA card reader today, it would read all your xD cards just fine. Of course if you're happy with what you're doing, no need to change — I just thought you might be interested in a little more info about the problem.

xD still hasn't caught on with anybody but Oly and Fuji and isn't available in sizes larger than 2GB, so I suspect it's going to fade out fast. SD seems to dominate the compact-camera market now.

i would try a 2nd reader, haven't heard that brand. depending on the card & reader, the reader can still be problems.

i had a reader that would read a 1gb card fine, 4gb cards always showed up "corrupted" but worked fine in the camera.

sounds like voodoo but this has been my experience in the past.