TRAIL CAM QUESTION

[hunter322]

Hey everyone! I have 2 cuddy back's and for some reason this year every time i pull the cards out and bring em home to chek em, they computer says the card is empty. Anyone else have this problem? Ive used these same cameras before and they worked fine. I dont know if the cards are bad or if i am doing something wrong.

[Musky Buck]

Feel bad for you, kinda defeats the trailcam purpose. On my moultree, I have to clear the sd cards of all images then I'm good to go, on a cuddy I don't know because you'd have your old images there I would guess and not just blank, next time you put them out let it take your picture for sure 1st but yea I don't know why they'd be blank ?

[slimngrizzly]

I dont know what to say? i hav a bunch of cudde's and they work great but I know your going to hear plenty of horror stories from everyone else. I can say from experience that their customer service is horrible... so no matter what your looking at an uphill climb

I guess I would take all the batteries out and replace them. Next Format all your sd cards and see if that helps.... its wierd it would happen to two cameras at the same time.

Good luck to ya! I know how frusterating it can be!

[sticknstring]

I've had all kinds of issues with my Cuddy fleet over the years. Every time you check your cards, erase them & format them before returning them to the camera. I know some guys will have 2 cards per camera and never use another card in that camera. I switch my cards up with no issues but who knows when I'll run into problems. Trail cameras are a lot of fun but they can provide a lot of headaches too!

[Musky Buck]

Was a Moultree backer, but now it's shot, so now I'm 2nd guessing my next purchase, got 3 years out of it, is that the going rate?

[TooTallTom]

I have no experience with trail cams, but you should check to make sure that the card isn't write protected. There's a little sliding tab along one edge of the card that you can move to prevent the card from being written to. It might've accidentally gotten into that position.

[fr0sty]

Check to make sure the sd card isn't "locked". There is usually a slider on one side of it that can lock the card. You can also try formatting in your laptop or pc.

[HunterLee]

You need to format them. Every once in a while it happens, I have got into the habit of putting the card in and them having it take a pic while I am there and then make sure it puts the pic on the card.

Takes a few min but don't have to worry about no pics. I have only had that problem with the older capture ir's the new one is super easy and have had no issues at all

[DHost21]

Was a Moultree backer, but now it's shot, so now I'm 2nd guessing my next purchase, got 3 years out of it, is that the going rate?

Same thing happened with my Moultrie. Same time frame. A buddy has a couple that are going on 5 or 6 years now though. After my Moultrie I bought a Bushnell. One of the first "little" cameras out so I think its been 4 years with that and havent had one issue. Also ran a cuddy a few years back an older one that I had issues with the battery compartment but that too overall pretty good and lasted 3 years before it got stolen. Since then been running primos for 2 years and they are decent for the money and then bushnells and I love them. Overall from experience and ease of use and what I read the Bushnells are far ahead of anything in its price range. They are comparable to the $500 dollar Reconix from what I have heard and half the price or less.

[deerminator]

I have had this issue on an off too with my cuddeback. It's maddening. I realy like everything about it except for that! I'm runnng several memory cards and haven't noticed any issue with any one particular one. So you have to format the card after every use. How do you do that?

One thing I know my manual says is you have to press the A button and wait for the green light to go off before removing the card to get your pics so I do that but sometimes it takes forever for that light to go off. Weird.

[hockeybc69]

I had a cudde.... Had one... very unimpressed.

I hear what people are saying about this formatting thing.... but I have had moultrie, bushnell, leaf river, homebrews(I made over 15 over the years), and I havent needed to format memory cards in any of them to ensure they took pics.

Heck, how many of you format memory cards in your cameras you use around the house? I dont think I have EVER formated a card in my personal use cams. I download the pics and delete them and its done.

[fr0sty]

You shouldn't have to keep formatting the cards, unless they are getting corrupted somehow. Some cameras have a menu option to reformat the cards. If yours doesn't do that, you can format them in your laptop or pc.

I insert the sd card in my laptop to copy images off. When you insert the card, go to my computer and look for the card to be displayed there as removable media or something similar.

Right click on the sd card icon in my computer and choose "properties". From there you should have a "tools" tab. Format should be an option.

Just be sure you are formatting the sd card and not your hard drive