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[OM] Re: E-500 firmware update needed for file delete and copy

Subject: [OM] Re: E-500 firmware update needed for file delete and copy
From: Don Shedrick <shedridc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry, that would not give me the "slide show" of best photos for use
during an extended vacation trip.  My issue is not storage - I use my
portable hard drive for that, and its 40GB costs less than 2 large CF
cards.

--- Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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