On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:09:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 5/14/2006 5:33:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I did that once with a 1/2 full 1 gig CF card. When the card was > reinserted in the camera it could hold only 40 instead of the 78 or so > PEF files it could normally hold. The space was freed up after > re-formating the card in the camera. > ======== > Interesting. I always format in camera, not because I knew the computer might > do that, but because it's the easiest way for my brain to keep track of when > I am "deleting" my pictures. (I always format to delete instead of deleting, > to avoid fat fragmentation or whatever.) > > It also seemed to me to be the safest way to format. > > Marnie aka Doe
I reformat in-camera because I'm going to be writing images to the card in the camera, so it just makes sense to me to do the rest of the write operations there as well.
