I'm not sure that's a good idea. Memory cards have finite read write
cycles. Reformatting rewrites the entire data structure of the card, it
doesn't erase the data areas to prolong the life of the card, one would
have to use a special utility accomplish that.
Erase all, should, and I say should, only change one character in each
file name. This should, (there's that word again), also prolong the
life of the card.
You should probably only reformat a card that if you're using it in a
different camera. I often don't even do that when switching between the
K-5II and K20D. Though about half the time the card id's as coming from
a K-5II, when I took it out of the K20D.
On 8/17/2016 11:00 AM, ann sanfedele wrote:
I always format any card I have in the camera (K-5) when it gets full
after I've uploaded everything to my pc - somewhere I read, or someone
I respect told me it was better to format than tojust "delete all" -
unless , of course, I decide I'd better keep the card asback-up. 90%
of what I shoot these days is just of stuff I'm selling on ebay.
Don't remember why reformatting is better than just deleting all -
possibly for space?
ann
On 8/17/2016 9:21 AM, Rick Womer wrote:
Formatting in the camera is a quick and easy way to erase the card.
That's all.
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Jostein Øksne <p...@alunfoto.no> wrote:
Apologies for veering off here, but I'm curious... Is there a well
funded reason for formatting the memory card every so often?
I know Macs leave a bit of crud in the file system whenever they get
the chance, but surely the camera would ignore that?
I don't think I have formatted a memory card in ten years, operating
systems aside...
Jostein
Den 17. august 2016 03.52.02 CEST, skrev Rick Womer
<rickpic...@gmail.com>:
Paul, that info seems to reside on the card, as it is lost when the
card is formatted in the camera (at least with Yosemite here).
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com>
wrote:
You can choose what devices you wish to auto load from in Photo
preferences. At least that's true in El Capitan and with the latest
versions of Photo.
Paul via phone
On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com>
wrote:
For the first time since I installed Yosemite on it several months
ago, I'm using my MacBook Pro for photo editing. (My home computer
is
still running 10.6.8).
Whenever I put an SD card in the slot, Yosemite launches Photo, and
one has to quit Photo before one can start importing into Lightroom.
A Google search reveals widespread frustration with this; and the
closest thing to a solution seems to be booting into Recovery Mode,
entering some cyber-stuff into Terminal, and rebooting normally.
However, this disables any automatic launching of anything (some of
which is useful, such as having an incoming pdf launch Preview).
Also,
this kludge apparently doesn't work with El Capitan.
Anybody out there have a fix?
Rick
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