Chuck,
Well that's disconcerting. I have avoided formatting cards with
my computer, but I routinely allow Photoshop to delete images from a
card that I have downloaded: this includes CF, xD, SD and mini-SD cards
used in three different cameras. So far I've had no problem. Maybe I'm
lazy but I find it very convenient to do this When I have 250 images on
a card and wish to download half of them to one folder and half to
another. Saves the trouble of de-selecting images or manually erasing
them one-by-one. Guess I've been lucky.
Charlie
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:11 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: formatting
In addition to formatting the media the camera also creates some
specific folders after the format which it uses for images and other
info. Unless those folders are there the camera may not recognize the
card.
It would also be possible using the computer to format the card with
other than a FAT-16 or FAT-32 format in which case the camera would
never recognize the card even if the correct folders were put there. Or
a FAT-32 format might be used on a camera which only undestands FAT-16.
Or, even if the camera recognizes both FAT-16 and FAT-32 the computer
created format could change other disk parameters such as sector and
cluster sizes which would be unrecognizable to the camera. These latter
things are less likely but possible.
The computer has and recognizes many more format parameters than the
camera which is made fairly dumb to minimize unnecessary code and costs.
To be on the safe side never allow the computer to write anything to the
CF card by either formatting or even erasing images. There's no valid
reason to do so. It can only lead to trouble.
Chuck Norcutt
John Hermanson wrote:
> Would someone explain why formatting a cf or xd card with a computer
> would render it unrecognizable when put into the camera? A third
party
> wants to know.
>
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