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Question:
We have an Olympus camera that uses an xD memory card.
We hooked up the camera to our TV by cable to view
pictures of a trip to
Washington
. It worked great until something happened that seems to
have erased or formatted the card. Now we can't find the
pictures on it. What can we do?
Answer:
Several programs can recover photos from what appears to
be an empty flash memory card. For a list, see
tinyurl.com/2or8y3. Because the xD card is not widely
used, be sure to select a compatible program, such as
the
$29.95
MediaRecover 4.0 for Windows.
Alternatively,
if you suspect the camera or cable could be at fault,
you could try to read the memory card in another device,
such as the
$10
Olympus xD card reader (called the MAUSB-500 USB Memory
Adapter) that plugs into a USB port on your PC. If the
memory card is undamaged, you should be able to view
your photos on the PC.
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Q: I have
a new computer with Windows 7 and get my e-mail through
Windows Live Mail. But I can't seem to open a type of
e-mail attachment that I regularly opened with my old
Windows XP PC. Now I get the message "This file
does not have a program associated with it." What
should I do?
A: In
order to open an attachment, you must have a program on
your computer that can read that type of file.
Write
down the file type of the attachment (.doc for Microsoft
Word, .ppt for PowerPoint, and so on), then find out
what's available to open it by going to Start, Control
Panel, Programs, Default Programs and clicking
"make a file type always open in a specific
program."
Find the
file type of your attachment in the list, and
double-click it to get a list of the programs on your PC
that can open that file. Choose one, and e-mail
attachments of that type will be opened by that software
in the future. If there aren't any programs that can
open the file, you'll have to buy some software.
Note that
in some cases, more than one program can be used. If you
don't have Microsoft Word, you can still read Word files
with the WordPad program located in the Accessories
folder.
Note that
Windows Live Mail automatically prevents you from
receiving or sending certain file attachments, such as
those ending in .exe (designating a program), because
they might contain malicious software. To view those
messages, override the security settings. See
tinyurl.com/yed6jjk.
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