@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.
Bob
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
