Thanks again. I don't think the directory naming would bother me. I would rename each as I downloaded them anyway. Paul On May 12, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Mark Cassino wrote:
> Hi Paul - > > If you are interested in more info re the Compact Drive, I put > together > a pretty detailed review here a while back: > > http://tinyurl.com/32js8x > > the only annoyance I've seen with the Compactdrive is WRT the way it > creates new directories. > > Let's say you save 10 cards to a new Compact Drive - they would be > written to the drive as 10 directories, CARD0001.UHS through > CARD0010.USH. But if you then erase the first 3 directories and save 5 > more cards, your 5 new cards would be saved as CARD0001.UHS through > CARD0003.USh, and then as CARD0011.ush and 0012.USH. If you do a > lot of > directory deletes on the drive, it gets confusing to track where the > newest files were. My old X's drive was much better in this capacity - > it simply indexed off the last directory on the drive. So if you had a > drive with just one directory - card0100 for example - the X's drive > would just pick up at card0101. > > I work around the problem on the Compactdrive by just deleting the > contents of each directory and leaving the empty directory there as a > place holder. But that is inelegant. > > One nice feature of the Compact Drive, though, is that you can put a > file on the main directory that will define how future card saves are > named. SO if you are heading out for the Onassis wedding, you can > stick > a file on the drive that will restart the file naming at > Onassis0001.UHS, and continue with that till you change the default > ont > he drive. > > Otherwise, I found the Compact Drive to be extremely well thought out > and designed at the detailed level. I am surprised they missed such an > obvious annoyance. > > - MCC > > Paul Stenquist wrote: >> Thanks Mark. Yes, 6 to 12 gigs per charge is inadequate. I didn't >> notice that on my quick read through. The Compactdrive sounds good. I >> may start shooting some weddings. If I do, I'll probably want a >> storage device. >> Paul > >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
