topic Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

zyclonenuz — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 01:25:07 GMT

hello everyone ! not sure where to post this but I do hope I'm on the right section. oh and sorry for my poor English.

anyway i just recently bought a canon M100. I don't know what is up but every time my stored photo on the sd card reaches 100 it creates another folder. I've checked the settings/menu and I've set the "create folder" is on Monthly. can anyone help me out ?

here is the screenshot

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

lly3988 — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:26:00 GMT

Do you have the user manual ?

http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/0/0300027770/01/eosm100-um-en.pdf

You have choice to set the folder and file numbering method.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

zyclonenuz — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:47:53 GMT

hi lly3988! yes that is the current setting of my camera now.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

ebiggs1 — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:46:39 GMT

Do you remove the SD card and reuse it without deleting the old folders? If you do the camera will make a new folder each time. Folders should start over at 9999 shots. Also if the folder number reaches 999 the camera will not shoot at all.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

zyclonenuz — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:18:15 GMT

oh i dont remove the sd card and i barely delete the files in it and folder. the only time i delete files if if the sd card is already full.

my old camera canon G15 doesnt do this and yeah i think it was around 1000 pictures before it creates another folder.

edit
i tried using a new sd card and same result.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

Ray-uk — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:31:13 GMT

@zyclonenuz
oh i dont remove the sd card and i barely delete the files in it and folder. the only time i delete files if if the sd card is already full.

This is not a good practice. Much better to download the files after each session and reformat the card before using the camera again. Deleting the files in-camera has caused problems for some people.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

zyclonenuz — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:51:49 GMT

oh ok. thanks for the tip.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

ebiggs1 — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:09:36 GMT

"Much better to download the files after each session and reformat the card ..."

This not just good advice, it is great advice. I think the practice of storing pics comes from people that use their cameras like they use their smartphones. But it does depend on how you intend to use your camera.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

coachboz68 — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:26:02 GMT

@ebiggs1wrote:
"Much better to download the files after each session and reformat the card ..."

This not just good advice, it is great advice. I think the practice of storing pics comes from people that use their cameras like they use their smartphones. But it does depend on how you intend to use your camera.

Erasing not enough? Do the actual FORMAT each time?

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

RobertTheFat — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:25:46 GMT

@ebiggs1wrote:
Do you remove the SD card and reuse it without deleting the old folders? If you do the camera will make a new folder each time. ...

Only if the reuse is on a different camera.

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

zyclonenuz — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:45:16 GMT

@ebiggs1wrote:
"Much better to download the files after each session and reformat the card ..."

This not just good advice, it is great advice. I think the practice of storing pics comes from people that use their cameras like they use their smartphones. But it does depend on how you intend to use your camera.

oh for me the reason why i dont really delete photos from sd card before is due to 2 bad experience.

1. i accidentally deleted the wrong folder and i wasn't able to recover the files. so it takes weeks of a month before i delete them just to make sure.

2. my hard drive died (seagate) on me a few days after i transfer my files from the sd card and i wasn't able to recover my files.

but now ill erase/format everytime i upload photos to my pc since i already have a portable drive and google drive. lol !

Re: help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

RobertTheFat — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 02:04:56 GMT

@zyclonenuzwrote:
@ebiggs1wrote:
"Much better to download the files after each session and reformat the card ..."

This not just good advice, it is great advice. I think the practice of storing pics comes from people that use their cameras like they use their smartphones. But it does depend on how you intend to use your camera.

oh for me the reason why i dont really delete photos from sd card before is due to 2 bad experience.

1. i accidentally deleted the wrong folder and i wasn't able to recover the files. so it takes weeks of a month before i delete them just to make sure.
2. my hard drive died (seagate) on me a few days after i transfer my files from the sd card and i wasn't able to recover my files.

but now ill erase/format everytime i upload photos to my pc since i already have a portable drive and google drive. lol !

Making sure your backups are in order is really a different issue. There's nothing wrong with leaving images on the card for a while as a last resort, but you shouldn't rely on it.

And thanks for the reminder. The next thing I'll do is plug in my offsite backup drive (which I brought in from my car earlier this afternoon) and copy my changed backup files to it. Then next month when I'm at my daughter's house in Philadelphia, I'll copy those files to my remote backup drive, which stays down there.