So, After 2 hours at the computer trying to dig out my photos, I decided to give up.

It''s been about a month now, and my compact flash card is sick (poor thing). I have a number of folders in which I save photos on the camera, but one day, one of them decided to join the dark side. Since then, it's been an abyss. I can't shoot fotos in it, and when I select the folder, the camera tells me there are no photos on the card, and won''t let me shut it off. Bleh.

So I go to the computer, and first the pc won''t even recognize that there''s a camera plugged in. Then I switch the camera usb settings from mass storage to ptp. it appears, but I can''t access it.

So today, I go to all the photo shops in town (sweating profusely) and they plug it in and tell me different things, none helpful. The man at kodak told me my camera was using a different format, that''s why it didn''t work with his machine (that''s shit, I've printed there before). Two others, no ideas. The last one came close, but the computer froze up and had to restart windows explorer. Her diagnostic was the best "tu compact flash tiene algo raro" which is of course the truth.

So now I have a rogue compact flash with several hundred of my best photos, and it appears, no way to retrieve them.

Maybe it's possessed, maybe the abyss really is a pathway to the inferno, I don't really know. I will succeed though, someday.

Alexei