subject: Fixing 'Cannot copy [file]' error in Kodak EasyShare Z950 [print this page] The Kodak EasyShare Z950 camera empowers you to click photographs of incredible quality. You can achieve professional-like performance using this compact camera which boasts of 12 megapixels, 10x optical zoom, 3 inches LCD display and fast click-to-capture speed. The camera is compatible with SD/SDHC cards and enables you to save and click a huge number of high quality photos. Due to better data transfer speed, these cards let you transfer photos to a computer without much hassles. However, these cards may leave your saved photos inaccessible in corruption cases. You can compensate the photo loss by restoring photos from a valid backup. But, if no backup is available, you must reformat the SD card and look for an efficient photo recovery software. These third-party tools recover photos in all data loss circumstances.
Consider a scenario, wherein, you are using an SD card, formatted in FAT 16 format, with your Kodak Z950 camera. When you connect the SD card to a computer and start adding some more photos onto it, you fail to do so, and may receive the following error message:
"Cannot copy [file]: The directory or file cannot be created."
The data transfer process gets halted due to the above error message.
Cause
The above error message can be experienced when you are using an SD card which already contains maximum number of files. The FAT 16 file system doesn't a large number of directories along with long filenames. It can only hold a maximum of 512 entries in its root directories.
Resolution
In order to eliminate the problem, you must observe the following steps:
Try by creating sub-directories and copying all the files into them
Be careful about assigning long names to the files
The above error message can be uprooted completely if you reformat the SD card in question to FAT 32 format. Meanwhile, you can take care of the data loss by employing a suitable photo recovery application.
These tools help you recover photos from formatted SD and other memory cards in an efficient way. Moreover, being read-only, a professional photo recovery software does not modify or alter a single photo while performing the recovery task.
Photos can be easily recovered from the Kodak Z950 camera using a robust application like Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery. The software recovers lost or deleted photos from multiple digital cameras and memory cards, irrespective of the reasons behind data loss. You can download this photo recovery utility for both Windows and Mac operating systems. The application also recovers audios and videos.
Fixing 'Cannot copy [file]' error in Kodak EasyShare Z950
