On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:36:32AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > How can you format the car without deleting the last file written??
Excuse me, they were talking about deleting them in the camera in order to make room for more pictures. > > I reformat as soon as I've transfered the files to a hard drive. (Or > to two hard drives if they're important shots.) Haven't had any card > problems recently other than a born-dead Transcend. The only other > problems I've ever had were due to physical damage to SD cards, > usually the lock. I almost never reformat my cards. I realize that I should use cp rather than mv, and if any shots were important I would, but I just run this script: #!/bin/bash mkdir $1 date ls /media/disk/dcim/*/* |wc mv /media/disk/dcim/*/* $1 date The book did mention that the cards use fat16 and most computers use fat32 and that there are problems with computers mixing filesystem types on cards. My desktop uses ext3, but can read and write fat16, so the warning to format in the camera rather than delete in the computer may be a windows centric warning, but one where you never get into trouble from following it. > Paul > ----- "Larry Colen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Per the advice from this list, I picked up the lightroom book by > > Resnick and Spritzer (not to be confused with Resnick and > > Halliday). They make a big deal that you should format the card in > > your camera after every use, and that you shouldn't delete the last > > file written to the card. > > > > I've never had any sort of problems just treating my SD cards like > > hard drives, and only occasionally reformatting. The only card I've > > had problems with is a Patriot 16GB I recently picked up that worked > > a > > charm in the K100, but is spastic in the K20. > > > > Is their advice valid? Valid, even though problems are rare, valid on > > CF, used to be valid, but no longer a problem? > > > > > > -- > > The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post > > the wrong answer. > > Larry Colen [email protected] > > http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
