On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 21:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > One caveat though, if moving pictures from the camera to the computers > hard drive, and since this is a fat system complete with the fat systems > bugs, always start at the bottom of the listing. If you start from the > top, you may run into one of msdos's nastier bugs and lose all the > pictures after the first 8 you just moved. Been there, done that, lost > the rest of the wedding shots, and had to format the card, which had gone > read-only. For reasons like that, I just *copy* pictures from camera cards. I re-format or erase pictures using the camera. Also, re-formatting outside of the camera *can* leave you with a card that the camera doesn't know what to do with, and you need to format it again on the camera. I wonder whether the issue you particually mention still exists? A multi-gig card couldn't be formatted with MS-DOS, it'd have to be one of the later file systems. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
