Great explanation Chris. That 999 folder issue happened to me on my x100v after a firmware update. This video will be a great resource for the Fuji community
Thank you Chris! You are absolutely the best Fujifilm educator/ teacher on you tube! You are so humble & gracious. Best wishes to you & your family. Cheers!
Wow! I put off watching this because I thought "What else is there to know about this?" and of course quickly realized when I watched it that you are a genius and Fuji needs to pay you. Knowledge (where do you get it?), humour and an all round good guy. Thank you sir. I knew when I ran out of film when the crank got too tight, now I'm just an old crank. Cheers.😊
I had made the mistake of formatting and deleting specific files on the card while on the macOS... Card gave me a few issues, and locked my X-T4 while doing a time-lapse. Thank you so much for this video! As always very helpful and entertaining :D
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you - I am mastering X-E4 which I've just bought - watching 500 of your yt lessons - and even more I've rediscovered my old X20, suddenly facing the terrible truth I knew NOTHING about this small camera I own since 2014... THANK YOU!
Thank you so much for showing the 999 fix. I literally had this issue Saturday at a shoot. Wasn't sure the issue but I swapped cards and kept going. I was looking at purchasing a new card this morning because I thought the no full issue was a card malfunction. I appreciate you and the thoughtful content you continue to provide.
999 folders with 999 images in each. I am trying to picture just how many 4x5 film holders that would look like:) As always, a very informative (and entertaining) video. I certainly appreciate all the research you put into this, it makes things easier for the end user.
Isn't it crazy that in this day an age the operating system on cameras today aren''t designed to be very user friendly? It's like forcing someone to use DOS on their Windows 11 PC. Have a great weekend Chris.
Man, I'm so grateful you exist. Thank you for your help with this issue! And for continuing to teach us more about fuji cameras, it's great having the ongoing support. Generally, when it's a new camera, everyone's talking about it, but when it's old news, it gets forgotten and you're left on your own in the dark, trying to figure out how everything works and how to optimise usability. I'm glad I don't have to feel like that with my XT3. :)
When I purchased second hand Fujifilm camera, this is the error that I see for the first time. Without googling first, I backup the data and reformat and still doesn't work. Back then I followed some tips online as exactly as what you said in this video and worked like a charm.
Thank you for this very helpful tip and info. I like the way Sony cameras name their folder based on date. I feel that this is so much easy when figuring out which ones are the new pictures taken without formatting the card.
Many thanks Chris for your Pal2Tech knowledge transfer and information over the years on Fujifilm cameras and lenses. These have all been well received and appreciated.
So glad that you made this video! I had an SD card this happened to while on a trip, and I ended up purchasing a very overpriced SD card because I thought my SD Card was full somehow. When I got home and looked at it a 128gb sd card had only 120 photos on it. Great to know now and will keep this tip in mind! Thank you Pal2Tec!!!
I really thank you for this content ❤ This helps me so much for avoiding me throw my SD card into trashbin. At the beginning i thought my sd card was error because the number of available frames still counted down almost less than 200 frames andthen i formated my sd card for several times but it remained error, untilllllll i watched this video especially in this part: 4:03 !!! What a relief ❤️❤️ God bless you
I've never felt inclined to set a custom folder, as an SD card is temporary storage until the card is safely backed up. I know ppl who never seem to erase their photos until they have to, but I find it quickly become a mess if I keep old images on there and not sure which are new. I'm liable to download duplicates or forget to download the last shoot. If there are images on there, it hasn't been downloaded. I always reformat after I'm done, and always on the camera; the Fuji reformat is a quick reformat, meaning it is only the directory that is erased, so sometimes I choose to Erase All Images. Canon has an option for a full reformat, which is preferable once in a while. Thankfully I've never come across the 999 folder issue mentioned. I didn't even come across the 4096 images in a folder issue, as I never shoot that many in a day, and I erase the card after everything is done. Hopefully Fuji (eventually) fixes their firmware so they can re-enable writing more than 999 images to a folder again. Pity the industry can't standardise on a better format than ExFat.
That was extremely helpful. Otherwise if I were to have encountered the pass 999 count and the camera would have locked up on me, I would had experience a prolonged case of sadness and I would had been very angry. Thank You so much Pal.
My solution is to rename all of my files using Adobe Bridge after I offload them. I use the bulk rename tool. Bridge will automatically number each raw or jpg for a you set up. First for me is the date set automatically in the format YYMMDD."name of place or event".0000x. Number with four leading zeros. Bridge will read the data in the image file and order each file.
This is interesting. Like your workaround for quasi erasing the custom subfolder name. One would think this would be a relatively easy fix in firmware. Hope Fuji is paying attention.
Thanks Chris. Good to know about the formatting. I noticed the file numbering has changed to 4 digits. I think you mentioned it in passing. This will help avoid name collisions, which wouldn’t necessarily happen very often, but could. When I import to LR I generate a custom file name that maintains the original sequence number as a suffix.
That 999 Images per folder since the recent Firmware Updates keeps me from updating my x-t3 and x-s10. It is sad that Fuji doesnt allow me to choose how much Pictures i want to Store in my folders. Greetz Cracky
Speaking of SD cards... I remember on my XT2 I would have problems reading the SD cards in a card reader. I would format them in the camera and then shoot, and try to read them in a card reader (a few different card readers actually) and it would always show a blank card. But when I put the card back in the camera, it would show me the images during playback. I even tried a few different cards of varying brands and sizes, and came to the conclusion (although never confirmed) that there must have been something wrong with the camera itself. As this was an intermittant problem but ran into it maybe once every handful of shoots, so it happened quite often, but wasn't necessarily repeatable. I made do though (connecting the camera to the computer and downloading that way). The semi-odd thing too was that I would set the second card slot as a backup, and would get the same result. So my guess is the camera was faulting in some way but still managed to shoot with it for about 2 years (the problem didn't start occuring until after about 8 months or so but I never looked into that seriously or send it in because I thought it was a card problem.
There seems to be a little error in your explaination: Format will not erase your files, it just creates a new File Table (which stores e.g. the info where files start), which overwrites the existing one. Proof: it only takes a few seconds. If format would really erase and overwrite all your files by zeroes it would take much, much longer; and would also increase the wear on your SD-card. It also means if you just format your SD-card and sell it, the buyer could restore your files with some tools, time and effort. ;) Keep that in mind: format erases only the file table, not the content of the files on your card or disk! Or in more positive words: just because you formated your SD-card by mistake does not mean your old files are lost; there are just a little harder to retrieve. ;) Besides this tiny 'hick-up' as always: a great video, very informative and fun to watch! :D
Hi, as far as I know, deleting the pictures is much softer on the SD card and greatly extends its life. Apparently re-formatting can only be done fewer times, even in-camera, and is a no-no amongst IT gurus. There are several uploads on this, but I am not claiming to be an expert myself. Maybe someone with actual knowledge and experience can enlighten us, cheers! Thanks!
Great video as ever. I must have created a custom folder when I first got my XT4. But on my camera it does not appear to create subfolders at every 1,000 number mark
Also, Fujifilm formated SD cards are read only. You can't put raw/jpeg files back on the SD card once you delete them. Keep that in mind, if you use the camera to do the basic raw file editing.
Amazing as always, I learned a lot with this channel. How about downgrading the firmware of XT series. I'd try but i can't find the way to downgrade my XT4.
Thanks Chris for this super helpful information! After watching this I went to check my XT4 and saw that the frame number was already set on renew, so is it nesecesary to change it to continous?
Hi Chris, Not sure the best place to ask this but here it goes. Do you have any method or means to remove INTERNAL dust from a Fuji XF lens? I primarily do time lapse photography and I have two different lens that seem to have dust invade my finished videos. Obviously it’s quite a chore to treat this in post via spot scrubbing the dust particles on an open sky for 100s of shots for a time lapse sequence. From everything I’ve searched most people caution against disassembly of a modern Fuji lens. What is your take on this and if you have successfully attempted removing internal dust, if I didn’t miss it already, would you consider doing a video on that process? Thanks a bunch you have helped this new Fuji user with many questions and understanding with my new equipment!
It's been just 4 months since i bought sd card and formatted it on my PC lately. It still works as a usb device, but no matter how i try to reformat it in mac/windows/camera, i get the card error stopping me from getting any picture. I formatted it in exFAT and even created the same fuji folder structure, to no success. Such a pity I can't use this card anymore and even Fujifilm's camera menu format won't fix it for me.
this happened to me while on vacation... it's so frustrating when you finally get to your destination and take 2 photos and then that error comes out not knowing what to do 😞😞... or access to a laptop to dump everything and do a full format.
Great information as always, thank you Chris! I wish I had a quick way to format on my X-S10 but because I don't have the pressable wheel at the back I can't do it that way. Unless there is a different hack for this model?...
Great tutorial Chris!!! One wierd thing on the XHS2, maybe for a future video?? I filled my CFexpress card, then half filled my UHS2 card. Then upon downloading all files on PC, the UHS2 cards files said" Duplicate Files" already downloaded in Capture One??? Even though I have both card slots 1 and 2 set up for Sequential RAW. Any ideas?
This is brilliant stuff Chris. Now my folders are still at numbers like 112, 113 etc and that equates to 12000 to 13000 photos. So if the folder count reaches 999 with 1000 photos in each then you've taken 999,000 photos? 'Tis very confusing. :)
I have a similar problem, i have erased an sd card (in my case i’ve arrived to the subfolder 104_FUJI) and after i took 1 single photo, in the select folder menu it says i have stored 573 photos inside that folder (which, i repeat, i have just reformatted)!
Fujifilm has a problem with the folder issue, with my XQ1 you can't create a folder on the camera, you have to do it on a computer! With the mirrors, you would have to select any folder at any time and continue with the last of the previous photo, not counting DSCF001 again, they should fix it with a firmware
If, for example, you have, on your SD card, only the "101_FUJI" and "999_FUJI" folders, and "999_FUJI" is full with 999 images and the camera does not let you shoot anymore, wouldn't the camera go on shooting in "103_FUJI" after, by using a laptop, you would rename the "999_FUJI" folder to "102_FUJI"? (this would be sort of a quick workaround, if you do not have time to transfer the images).
Hey Chris, my number count of total images taken somehow reset on it's own even though my camera was in continuous mode. I was about 4,500 & reset back to 0. Is there anyway to go back to the original count? Or is this a lost cause? I'm not sure what caused this to happen but it's annoying when combining images in a timeline and the order being incorrect. Thanks for your time!
will, a software like capture one, consider a raw file named 000.raf from a folder the same as a 000.raf from another different folder, during importing ?? I noticed that Capture One refuses to import the same raw file twice in the same catalog file.
