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Hey all, I went out to check one of my trail cameras yesterday and the lcd screen on my moultrie says that it took about 200 pictures, sweet so I pull the card and pop it in my cannon point and shoot camera to view the pics, and the screen on my point and shoot says "error card is locked", so i pull the card and check the little lock switch on the side of the card, and it is in the unlocked position. Is there a way to fix this? I'd really like to see what pictures my moultrie a-5 took. I haven't had this problem yet. Any suggestions?


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~Jamie
 
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Did you format the card first? I know I've had a camera that wouldn't let me view pics on it before. You should be able to view them on your computer using a card reader.
 
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Format it and do not place in any other brand camera. Try to use the same SD card in the same trail cam each time.
 
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How do you format??? I set my Moultrie 880 up this weekend. Put my cards in and did some test pics. Worked great when I put them in my computer to check. Didn't do anything special???? Is there a formatting step like when setting up a disk on your computer???
 
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You can format them in your computer by going to "my computer" and right click on whatever drive is your sd card and then click format. Most cameras also have a format procedure you can do. I have issues with viewing my sd cards from trail cams in point and shoot cameras. I always have to view on a computer.
 
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If you put pics on computer just put the card in the camera. Turn it on and go to your menu function and scroll thru to format and click yes. It will erase everything on card and should then be able to view pics from trail cam on it.
 
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Moultrie recommends that you format your SD cards in the camera every time you switch them out. Save the pictures on your computer and then erase them all from your camera. I got lucky on my cameras for about four swaps, then one of the three cameras had 1,400 pictures but nothing would come up on the computer. So if your not currently formatting them on your camera consider yourself lucky and start doing it. I am not looking forward to getting the other two cards out cause I have a feeling they are not going to work.
 
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I have the Moultrie M100 which is awesome by the way. When I am done dumping the pictures onto my computer I delete all files on the card before ejecting it. My computer and ipad were putting some type of files on the card that the M100 did not like and it was not working.
 
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Thanks for the help everyone. I brought my laptop out to the tree where my camera is and plugged the card into my laptop instead of my camera, and it worked great, downloaded the pics onto my computer and popped the card back into the camera.


What exactly is formatting? I tried a different card in the point and shoot camera and got the same error message.


Thanks for all the help At'ers
 
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I can never get my sd cards to work in anything but my home computer to view the trail cam pics on them. I have a moultrie m80 that was super picky about sd cards until I found and downloaded the update for it.
 
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redneckromeo said:
I can never get my sd cards to work in anything but my home computer to view the trail cam pics on them. I have a moultrie m80 that was super picky about sd cards until I found and downloaded the update for it.
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I have the moultrie m 100 and the format it has is different, it won't work in other cameras to view them either but it works fine on the computer. When you place them back in the camera click delete all it formats it's to the camera. .
 
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