Bushnell Trail Master Users or anyone... PLEASE HELP

[Hornseeker]

Alright... when I put this cam out I was worried cause I tested it and then pulled the card and put it in my canon and it wouldn't read, said card error... so I'd format it on my canon..then put it back in the bushnell and it'd take pics and register them... then I'd put it in my canon and it wouldn't read it!!! WTF I thought... But hey..it was recording images...

Well fast forward to this afternoon... I very excitedly hike into my camera and see it has 91 images on it... I pull the card and put it in my canon and same thing..so I pull it out, without doing anything...and run back and stick it in my card reader and all it says is, Card must be formatted... I then go to wal-mart and stick it in every machine they have, "card has no data"...

Well...I am most likely looking at a card with no data...but does anyone have any advice? Anyone have this trail master?? I am miffed? I am looking to set it out in a HOT elk area come Sunday for a few weeks and am very scared....might buy a new cudde before then and just put it out till I get this figured out..

On a plus note...I did see two nice bears today... pics later..

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[Hornseeker]

Manual pics from my trip up today... this is some country I was hoping to get a good muley on film in....


Wildflowers were crazy!!


Came around a corner and two bears were standing in the middle of a beautiful meadow... man...to have walked around that corner instead of drove...would have been a Fantastic photo opp!!! BUT alas..I was driving and they took off running...so I slammed the breaks on and bailed out and got a couple shots.. Little brown sow was beautiful but only got a partial of her to show color...


A real nice boar was with her... probably trying to get a roll in the wild flowers...it is that time of year!




PIc qual it crappy, but they never really quit moving and I wasn't on "action mode"... 

[saylean]

access the card via your computer (either connect the hand held camera (not the trail cam) to your comp and access that way, or plug in the card directly).

I have tried to look at my trail cam pics on the memory card using my camera and no images will show up. For some reason the trail cam creates a new folder on the card, which I cannot locate unless I plug it into my computer, or a trail cam viewer.

Good luck and great pics.

[Hornseeker]

Thanks, but I've tried that... I have a card reader that goes directly to my computer... it just says it has to be "formatted"... I just put the card back in the bushnell... let it take two pics of me... then put it in the card reader and it says, "must format"... but the bushnell booklet never says anything about formatting the card.....

aaaargh...

Thanks

[jackelope]

when you put the card in your hand held camera the camera  probably reformatted the card to properly work in the camera, thus nuking the pics that were on it.
formats don't always match camera to camera, be it trailcams or point and shoots or whatever, and if your hand held camera is like mine, it automatically reformats the card to work properly.
my card happens to work in my trail cam and my FZ so i am lucky. you should get a multi-format card reader rather than trying to use your hand held. it's not an issue with your trail cam.

[Hornseeker]

Lope,
I just checked something... my buddy sent me the camera with a 32 mb card in it... I took it and stuck it in my canon...reads it NO prob... I am wondering if this cam is not able to use the 1 and 2 gig cards I bought??? That cam is only a year and a half old..

[saylean]

I havent tried the gig cards yet...only the 64MB's