Joseph McAllister wrote:
Need? There is no need if it came out of the camera you are putting it
back into. However, many people have multiple cards for multiple devices.
Because of this, the "experts" have recommended for years that one should
develop a habit of always formatting the card rather than just erasing
it. Erasing does the job 99% of the time, but just like your hard drive
or a printer nozzle, occasionally they screw up and munge data. The first
thing computer "experts" tell you to do when a drive won't read or your
OS is misbehaving is to "reformat and re- install". And by no means ever
use your computer or some other device to erase or format a card that you
just plop in your camera. Need? No, you don't need to do anything except
eat and sleep.
But you should format your SD card before you use it. Every time. Just to
be safe! :-)
And it is much, much quicker than deleting a few hundred pictures in the
card.
Another reason for using Format instead of Delete.
Dario
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