Fix “Write Protect Error” in Olympus Camera
Olympus is a digital camera with high megapixel resolution, pictures captured in this camera is crystal clear. But since it is a digital camera therefore when the photos are damaged then it cannot be restored from the camera itself. Many times the photos are damaged due to numerous reasons like interruption in between the input output process, capturing photos in low battery charge, deletion of photos etc. To restore the damaged photos you need to make use of third party photo recovery tool.
Assume an instance you captured 500 photos in your Olympus digital camera, after that you removed the memory card from the camera. When you attempted to transfer the photos from the camera to the PC then you came across with following error:
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“ Write Protect Error ”
After above error is displayed you will unable to access the photos present in the camera.
Cause of Error
- When camera is unable to save specific photo file then above error is displayed in the camera.
- In case you are not able to save specific file then above error pops up.
- If the image is read only or write protected then you come across with above error.
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Solution
First of all you need to see whether the “locking” tab is activated or not. In case yes then camera will unable to write new files in the camera or deleted the old ones. Therefore you need to deactivate the locking tab. If the locking tab is not activated then it means that memory card of the Olympus camera is damaged. In order to fix write protect error after that you need to format the memory card then you need to restore the photos by performing XD card recovery. After that you need to recover the damaged as well as deleted photos safely.