Camera memory card question.... can't delete what's on it

[Kbear]

I have a 1Gb memory card in my camera. I've downloaded and saved my holiday photos to my PC and backed them up.

I now want to delete them from my camera and I know how to do it and have done it... BUT it only deletes the latest images and instead of having 450 new images to take, it shows only 85 available - there are still photos lurking somewhere on the memory because when I go to upload the new photos it uploads my holiday photos again but I can't view them on the camera in the usual way. Where are these images lurking?

The 4 trillion page instruction manual doesn't help!

can you insert your memory card in or connect the camera to the computer? and if so can you see more pics then?

Yes, the holiday pics aren't shown when I view them on the camera but upload when I attach to the pc.

There should be 454 pictures available to take but the memory card is showing 85 available and saying that there are no images to view (I've deleted more recent ones). So the memory card should in theory be empty but it's not - they are lurking...

Can you reformat the memory card?

when it's attached to the pc can you select all the ones (using shift and click) you want to delete and just delete that way?

Wellies, but that just deletes them from the upload, they seem to stay on the camera.

SaintG - how would a dim person reformat a memory card please?

Thanks both for your help by the way!!

hang on there is a reformatting memory card bit in the manual, I will check that

Is it an SD card?

If it is I think that there may be a physical little switch on teh card which prevents you from over-writing when you don't intend to. If reformatting doesn't work take hte card out and see if there is a little switch.

ta darrrrrr

reformatting the memory card took a second and has done the job.

Thank you!

Yeah, I found that little LOCK button the on side but reformatting seems to be the answer!! Ta

the little yellow switch on the left of this card is what I am talking about....

X posts....glad it is sorted.

Glad you got it sorted.

glad it got sorted