USB Camera

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 3 06:57:45 UTC 2007


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.

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