Rather than routinely purging the recycle bin (defeats the objective
of being able to recycle!) you can set it to empty itself if it should
ever get too full (you can set what % of total available space it
shouldn't exceed)
Hope you find your files!
Jez
On 22/08/2011, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for all the advice on this topic.
>
> On checking (using Windows Explorer which is my routine file management
> tool) I noticed that the dates of creation of the directories are months
> AFTER the dates the pics were taken. Normally these would be the same
> day as the arrival of the first images, with the rest later.
>
> Then I remembered that this relatively new HDD had this stuff copied from
> my older and chock-full HDD. And I don't, for the life of me, remember
> where I have stored the durn thang. Such are the joys of moving
> house/home. I'm still far from unpacked/space is very tight, to say the
> least..
>
> So I think the most likely scenario is that the process of copying the files
> from one HDD to the other had the occasional failure.
>
> I don't have Nortons. The first major task I undertook when I bought this
> 2nd
> hand machine was to totally remove Nortons. What a job! But the
> operational speed of the machine increased (conservatively) by about
> 1000% It was a horrible slug when I bought it, and that was probably the
> reason for it being on the market in the first place.
>
> I have done several thorough searches. I always leave the camera image ID
> letters/numbers intact in the file names, so a Windows Explorer search
> should without fail, find them. I use the old pre-windows trick of the *
> wildcard appropriately in searches. It's amazing to me that an XP program
> would use this, but it does.
>
> I routinely purge the Recycle bin. There is no chance I put them in there.
>
> I'm glad but not surprised Ken likes the 100/2. However, one thing it
> doesn't
> have is great DOF, and a work-around often sees another lens being used.
>
> An old friend of mine (professional forest-science-industrial photographer)
> scorned the use of macro lenses. His work-around was to stand back with a
> larger format machine ( Hasselblad or larger) with normal lens, and fire
> away. Then enlarge/crop as needed.
>
> The reason I was looking for the images I could not find was that I wanted
> to
> comb through them for one for a competition. There is a UN Photo comp
> (International Year of Forests 2011 - What forests provide to Society).
> I provided 3, and for one the black cloth that Wayne Harridge sent me
> proved absolutely essential. Thanks Wayne.
> I had an awful time trying to eliminate reflections in an oiled wooden bowl.
> I was saved eventually by a foggy, frosty morning before the sun got up too
> high; but on the way found i could not locate my circ-pol 49mm filter for my
> Zuiko 50/3.5 macro. I had the 55mm circ-pol for the 100/2, but then
> insufficient DOF. I had the 58mm one for the DZ 14-45 lens but found it too
> dim to see through.
> Then I remembered I had a 49-55 step-up ring, so tried to put the 55mm c-p
> filter on the 50/3.5 macro. One end fitted the lens OK, but what at casual
> inspection looked like 55mm thread on this ring proved to be nothing of the
> sort. I think it's not thread at all, and now I don't know what this ring
> accomplishes. The 'threads' seem to be all parallel with the rim and each
> other. and with a too-small diameter.
>
> I will post photos as soon as reasonably possible.
>
> Brian Swale.
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