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I've never had a problem transferring digital photos from my camera (Canon Ixus) to my laptop, to do this I use a USB cable connection rather than taking out the SD card from the camera.

However, I'm having no joy trying to do the reverse. First of all I tried the USB cable connection but no option came up in the menu box to transfer photos back onto the card. So I removed the SD card from my camera, stuck it in the SD port on my laptop, and drag and dropped a photo onto the SD card. But when I put the SD card back into my camera, there's no sign of it. Any ideas?...

Yes there is a reason why you will have great difficulty in doing what you want. Metadata (Exif) is written to the card by the camera. This is done differently by various camera manufacturers.


Image editors have to interpet this info to create the image on your computer, during this process the image editor damages/alters or even removes the metadata. Without this data being present in it's original form the camera cannot read the file.



info source http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/1/tech-helproom/4146359/transfer-photos-to-camera-sd-card/


Foxy

out of curiosity, why do this?

The mother in law requested the same with similar results, but there's so many ways to store, host and view images these days I can't see why you'd want to get it back on a camera when getting people to get them off the damn camera is usually the hard part ;)

You can download Opanda IExif from here.


http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm


It displays the image taken from digital camera and every item of EXIF data in the image from beginning to end.


Even down to the number of the picture that your camera has ever taken.


Foxy

Thanks KK and Foxy.

EP...this came about as I wanted to print off photos using one of those machines in Boots/Snappy Snaps, which you can do via an SD card, CD, USB stick etc. I was just curious why it wouldn't appear back on my camera. I thought it would be quite a simple task...obviously not! :)

red devil Wrote:

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> Thanks KK and Foxy.

> EP...this came about as I wanted to print off

> photos using one of those machines in Boots/Snappy

> Snaps, which you can do via an SD card, CD, USB

> stick etc. I was just curious why it wouldn't

> appear back on my camera. I thought it would be

> quite a simple task...obviously not! :)


If your PC can read them back, it is likely the Snappy Snap machine will be able to read them..

Do you get a chance to see the pics before you have to pay. ?


Foxy.

No idea Ian. It's not a dealbreaker for me that I can't get them back onto the camera, I was just curious why they wouldn't go back.

I haven't been to Boots yet Foxy, but like you say, I'm sure their machine will be able to read the SD card, and I presume I'll be able to choose which photo to print off. I shall take a USB stick as back-up just in case...

It's probably too late for you now, but Snapfish often have offers on (30% off at the moment).


It's very easy to upload pix to their website, and they have very speedy delivery (mine arrived in two days.) I got 100 6X4 prints for just over six pounds, with free delivery.


Saves you a trip to Boots and all the hassle you seem to have had. And the quality of the prints is very good, in my opinion.


They're always having offers, though their half price 7X5 prints one has just finished.


ETA: I can't find a way to link to the Snapfish page without it coming up as my account, probably because I'm permanently logged in or something, but if you google Snapfish it should come up first.

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