DO NOT FORMAT unless you are ready to wipe the card of any data. Also, format the card only while in your camera, e.g., let your camera do the formatting. A number of camera makers do special formats bsead on their own system. Usually, it means it reserves some space at the beginning of the file to record settings and time/date (file header). The photo content, if recorded in a standard format such as jpg will be the same as any other jpg format written by other equipment. If you format a card in other equipment, it may not be recognized by your camera and will ask if you wish to format it. That may be waht happened at Walgreens: Your card had a special file structure that was not recognized by Walgreens equipment, i.e., it wasn't smart enough to search the file for the begining of the picture content, or the photo was recorded using a technique not recognized the the machine. For example, if the card was written by a Kodak camera using their pciture format, pcn, it may not have been recognizable by the Walgreen photo machine. What to do: Find out what types of media the Walgreen machine can accept (CD, USB thumb drive) and which photo formats it can read (jpg, tiff, raw, etc.) Transfer the photos from your camera to a computer files such as hard disk, data CD, USB thumb drive, etc., and then take a copy on a CD, USB drive, etc to Walgreens for printing. Again, do not format your data media in the Walgreens machine. Do all your formating back at home. One caution: If you format a card in the camera, make sure its cells are charged or use an external power supply if you have one. Running out of power while formatting is a bad thing.

Hi Linda, I'm not sure I'm going to be much help, but here goes. The 2240 x 1493 is an appropriate size for images coming out of your camera. You wouldn't want to change them to 640 x 480 in the camera because you wouldn't be able to print them at that resolution. So the question becomes whether or not Photobucket automatically resizes them upon uploading. I wasn't aware that they ever did this, but they must have if you remember uploading without resizing. I keep a folder on my desktop of resized photos for emailing and uploading to Photobucket and Flickr. I've never tried to upload a full-size file. However, it's easy to resize photos that are already on Photobucket. Just click on Edit (right above the image), then Resize, and follow the instructions. There's a preset 640 x 480 that you can use if you like. Hope this helps. Susan

Cheeky, I would suggest contacting whoever manages the cemetery and getting directions to the grave. If it's a large cemetery you might be able to contact them via their website. Or if the cemetery has a telephone listing, you could use that. Others may chime in with good tips for you. My country cemeteries are often managed by volunteers, and I get those names and phone numbers by calling local funeral homes. The funeral directors have a lot of knowledge about the cemeteries, which I guess figures. Often graves are grouped more or less chronologically, with those buried in the same decade close to each other. My earlier family plot is at Woodlawn, which is enormous: 400 acres! I'm not likely to wander around there without a map.

Be sure to format the card in the new camera. After that, it should work beautifully. "...it's better to connect the camera to the computer than to remove the card. Removing the card over and over can cause issues with it." I disagree. Removing/replacing the card won't cause any issues at all, provided you do it correctly. Before removing the card from the camera, make sure that it is not still in the process of saving a photo to the card. Turn the camera off. Then remove the card. Put the card into the computer's card reader. It will most likely appear as a removable drive. When you are done moving/copying the pictures from the card to the computer, be sure you follow the proper procedure to disconnect the removable drive. Generally speaking, you should have an icon in the system tray (the lower right-hand corner of your screen) and it will have a green arrow. Right click on the icon and then click on "Safely remove hardware." You should get another window that will list removable drives. Click on the appropriate drive letter to select it, then click on the "close" or "disconnect" button. After a second or two you will get a popup that says it is safe to remove the hardware. Then, and only then, should you remove the card and reinsert it into the camera. Another factor -- when you keep the card in the camera, and use the connector cables to attach the camera to the computer to offload the images, you are using the camera's battery power, which will deplete it much more quickly than necessary. When the card is in a card reader attached to or integrated within the computer, it uses the computer's power, saving the camera's battery.