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I have sent the following to Lexar, and await a response:
I have been using Lexar products for years without any problems at all,
namely 4x Lexar Professional 300x 8GB UDMA CF cards with a Lexar UDMA
CompactFlash CD Reader (USB 2.0) with a Nikon D200 & Nikon D300.
On 22nd Nov 2012 I purchased a Lexar Professional 1000x CF twin-pack
from B&H Photo (and a Lexar SDHC 32GB 600x twin pack). After taking
approx. 200 photos on a Nikon D800 I copied the NEF files onto my Mac
Pro via a Lexar USB2 which failed to recognise the card. I then
researched on the the web and found that I was not the only one who was
encountering this problem, and that it was quite widespread. A Lexar
USB 3.0 Dual-Slot Reader was required to recognise the card, so I
purchased one. I managed to copy the NEF files across to my hard drive
and subsequently loaded them into Lightroom. I could see the thumbnails
but when I tried to open the files I got a message 'An Unexpected End of
File Occurred'. I was unable to Develop/Edit the images.
I then used the supplied Image Rescue 4 program to recover all of my NEF
files from the memory card, and renamed them all to the original name,
which was quite a task! I have recovered those photos and they have now
beed developed in Lightroom.
So, I currently have 2x Lexar 1000x CF cards that I am reluctant to use
due to the problems encountered. What is the problem and how do I/you
solve it, as the current situation is totally unacceptable and very
expensive to be unusable.
Equipment used:
Lexar Professional 1000x CF
Lexar UDMA CompactFlash CD Reader (USB 2.0)
Lexar USB 3.0 Dual-Slot Reader (Upgraded to LX01 UNMA 7 Support) Model
LRW300U Rev: D
Nikon D800, latest firmware
Mac Pro, OSX 10.8.2
Lightroom 4.3 (Camera Raw 7.3)
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