Resolving DCF full error in Samsung Digital Camera

Are you suffering from photo loss from your camera? You can recover your lost photos by the card photo recovery software.

Samsung offers a brilliant range of digital camera with user friendly features thereby making it popular among the home users as well as the professional users. It range of cameras include GX series, the NV series, the ST series, and L series among others. However, the camera is prone to corruption for various reasons.

However, you can recover the photos corrupt due to the physical damage of the camera by substituting the part with a new part in a service center. But if the corruption is the result of the damage of memory card, you need to format the memory card.

A formatted memory card however permanently wipes out the file system thereby making the photos saved on it inaccessible. It however does not mean permanent loss of the photos.

Unless new pictures are written in to the freshly formatted memory card, the old pictures still remain intact. If you have an updated backup, you can recover the inaccessible photos from the backup. But in absence of a proper backup, one can recover lost photos by using a card recovery software.

Picture this scenario: you have snapped some brilliantly exclusive photos in a Jungle Tour. Back home when you attempt to view pictures stored in your Samsung camera, you receive the following error messages:


"DCF full error"

or

"No file error"


Cause:

The reasons responsible for the occurrence of the error messages defined above can be explained in the following text:
  • The "DCF full error" occurs when you use memory card in your camera which is formatted in another camera. The error is the result of improper formatting of the memory card which leads to incompatibility of the card with the Samsung camera.
  • The "No file error" occurs when your memory card is completely empty either due to corrupt memory card. The error can also occur when Samsung card store the photos in the internal memory and not in the memory card.

Resolution:

To recover the photos lost in the process discussed above, you must perform the following procedures:
  • Format the memory card in your Samsung digital camera
  • Recover the photos deleted due to the formatting of the memory card; you should retrieve the photos from an updated backup. In absence of a proper backup, you can retrieve the photos by using photo recovery software.