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Card Reader Error

My son gave me his Panasonic DMC-TZ3 digital camera yesterday. I took pictures and even emailed some of them. Now the message displayed says "Card Reader Locked". It plays the pictures back but won't let me take new ones. Does anyone know what to do to unlock the card?

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There's a slide switch on one edge of the SD card. Slide it away from the contacts. If that doesn't work, there's a problem with the mechanism inside the camera that detects the switch position.

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