Probably more easily fixed by buying lots of spare CF cards and forget
about the copy operation.
Chuck Norcutt
Don Shedrick wrote:
> I have come up with a couple of complaints about the current firmware
> in the E-500 relative to file copying to another card, and with file
> deleting. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I missing something?
>
> Having two cards is a neat feature and opens up the possibility of
> creating a second collection of images on the spare card, useful when
> on a long trip and I would like to keep a small file version (HQ) of
> some of my best shots to review during the trip and show to others.
> The RAW and corresponding HQ jpg on the main card I will download to
> a portable cardreader/hard drive. The annoying thing is you cannot
> select to just copy to the spare card just the jpg or the RAW of the
> selected files - you have to copy both. Then I have to manually
> delete just the RAW file from the spare card to keep enough space to
> hold a week or two of the best shots.
>
> That is where the second annoyance comes in. You thankfully can
> select to delete just the RAW or just the jpg, but only if you delete
> one file at a time, not when you select a series of files and try to
> delete one type of all the selected files at once. In that case you
> would delete both the RAW and jpg. Also annoying is when you select
> to delete just one of the file types, which you must do one file at a
> time, after deleting the file, you are scrolled back to the last file
> on the card. So if you are trying to delete a long series of files
> of just one file type, you have to keep scrolling back to where your
> next file to delete is.
>
> All very annoying, when it could be made so much easier. It is a
> great feature that is made very annoying by poor execution. It does
> work - just annoying and more time consuming than it should be. It
> seems to me this could be easily fixed by a firmware update.
>
>
>
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