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Why are my pictures from my WildGame Innovations TrailCam not formatted correctly?

So, I bought my first trailcam. The Wildgame Innovations Ir4. The camera takes good pictures, but I have run into 2 obstacles. 1) I pulled the SD yesterday and popped it into my digital camera and it said it wasnt working properly. 2) It sometimes takes pictures that "arent formatted correctly". If I get 30 pictures, 15 of them will just be what I call blank pictures that won't show up. It often takes pictures of nothing, so I cut all possible wind blown weeds away and it has been much better, but still shows empty shots at times. The WildGame Innovations websites mentions drivers. Do I need to plug the camera up and update some sort of firmware? Any ideas??

Public Comments

1. Your digital camera could be using a different format than the game camera. You could be disconnecting the SD card before writing all of the info to it. You should insert the SD card into a card reader on your computer and copy or view then directly from the reader. They you can use the appropriate software on your computer to view the pictures. Make sure that you do a "safely remove the hardware" before removing the SD card from your computer. You may want to format the SD card in your computer do completely remove the info from the card and straighten out the file system.
2. Have you tried formatting the SD card in your Trail-Cam first before using it? Try using a card reader with your computer as not to corrupt your files when putting them in another camera. You may want to insure that the files that your Trail-Cam produce are JPEGs.