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help ! Canon M100 keeps creating folder every 100 photos

zyclonenuz
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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 f443434.png

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@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


@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.

Bob
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
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