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dustine · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:56 pm

Surely this has happened to someone who can help me. My 32gb SD card came apart. The top plastic piece came off, exposing the "guts", and in doing so, the little piece of plastic that locks the card so the images can't be erased got lost.

The card still works to both record images and play if I hold it together and insert it into the camera or computer, but it's on protect and nothing can be deleted from the card. Soon it will be full and unusable.

I'm figuring it would be easy to put back together with a drop of super glue in the corners, but I need to figure out how to fix it so I can delete the images from the card when I need to.

Anyone else ever have this interesting problem in their dealings with SD cards?

Guess I should have titled this post "Need Help From Long Time Digital Pros"

PaulCowan · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 4182 Location: Evolving

Sorry, can't help; but it is fear of card failure which has let me to carry a pile of 4gig cards with me. They take no space, each hold the equivalent of three rolls of 35mm film (which is a lot of shots), and if one fails it is not such a big problem. With SD the space issue is even less relevant than with my CF cards.

robhainer · Joined: 03 May 2010 Posts: 2769 Location: Dallas, GA, USA

I would take the photos off of it and throw it away. Still cheaper than film.

PaulCowan · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 4182 Location: Evolving

dustine · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:25 pm

A replacement card costs 35.00...sigh. Hate to lose it when it's still working.

Oh well, guess I'm just being cheap...

Thanks all!

ajancso · Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 1891 Location: Right Behind You

What do you prefer? Spending $35 on a new card, or coming back home from that "once in a lifetime" photo shoot only to find out that all your pictures are no more?

Yes, you are being cheap ;)

Mike Price · Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 2920 Location: South Wales

I would dump it. I also begrudge chucking away working things, but imagine if a 32GB card failed when full, you could be talking about losing up to 1000 RAW images. That loss is irreplacable. I have just bought two 16GB cards after never using greater than 4Gb, but with 25Mb RAWs, I found it was too easy to get a full card at a vital shooting time.

Mike

dustine · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:01 pm

Yes, it would be awful to lose a card full of good video or photos. Dump it I will.