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EOS (550D) "busy" - solution

Started Sep 26, 2015 | Discussions thread
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MiG_ New Member • Posts: 3
EOS (550D) "busy" - solution
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Figured I might as well post it here in case it helps someone else.

I'm in the habit of quickly tossing the pictures I made on a trip in subdirs on the camera SD card, so I can sort through them later. Lately however my camera decided to object to this by throwing a permanent 'busy' message.

First I thought it might be non standard characters that I occasionally used, but after poking at the issue with a second card, it looks like it's a path length issue - the camera firmware doesn't seem to like full paths longer than roughly 64 characters (depending on what type of addressing it uses internally of course).

Example: I:\DCIM\101CANON\Project name - City name meeting (sep 2015)\IMG_1234.jpg would cause the camera to object, whereas I:\DCIM\101CANON\Projname Cityname (sep 2015)\IMG_1234.jpg would be just fine. I guess my dir names got more elaborate lately...

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