When I said it might be dangerous I was thinking of some set of
circumstances of which I am totally unaware. Windows does not delete a
directory entry until the 'Paste' is complete. If something goes wrong
to stop the transfer the file is left as it was. You might be just as
far up the creek with 'Copy' if there was a power failure. I have worked
with Windows for a long time and never come across a set of
circumstances where 'Cut' resulted in a lost directory entry. Does being
'cautious' mean that one should not go to sleep for fear of not waking
again? By the way the directory structure on a CF card is standard FAT32
and formatting from the PC should be perfectly okay. But the camera
needs a directory as well.
I suppose to be really safe one should copy the files twice and then
keep the card untouched until all the images have been processed and
archived or one reaches reaches 80 when its hardly going to matter any more.
Don
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi,
I sorta knew that - IOW, I wasn't sure. But, when working with important
photos on a computer, it never hurts to play it safe. There's always the
possibility that you can hit the wrong key and end up deleting files
rather than pasting them. It seems to me that if you've spent a full day
out photographing, or even just a few minutes making some important shots,
an extra second or two being cautious is good insurance. Probably the
chances of losing your work are small, but, to paraphrase an often seen
bumper sticker, "Stuff Happens."
It seems interesting that someone can say that their technique "may be
dangerous" and then continue using it because so far there haven't been
problems.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Adam Maas
Windows doesn't remove the originals until the copy is successful. That
said, I always used copy rather than cut to be on the safe side.
-Adam
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
That strikes me as courting disaster. Should there be a problem when
xfering the files, you may have lost the originals.
Same here -- and I choose 'Cut' not 'Copy' when transferring. When
they've been 'Pasted' to the hard drive there's nothing left on the
card. May be dangerous I suppose but so far I haven't had an accident.
--
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