Timeline for Managing image filenames to avoid duplicate
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| Nov 17, 2017 at 13:51 | comment | added | twalberg | Definitely agree on the renaming convention, although in todays world of burst shooting in excess of 10fps, I've had to modify the convention I use to YYYYMMDDhhmmss-nnnn.jpg, where nnnn is the original shot number from the original IMG_nnnn.jpg name. Although it could really just be any arbitrary number to avoid name collisions... | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | Michael C | If you erase all of the images on the card periodically that is almost the same as reformatting from a fragmentation point of view, but not from a bad sector point of view. Agreed that the #1 problem is removing a card when it is being written to by the device. Why do you refuse to format your cards, though? | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 13:09 | comment | added | Aganju | I agree that this is the recommended list, and I know that many world re-known professionals do all this; however, i think it is overshooting the target quite a bit. I have taken about 60000 shots in the last four years, never reformatted a card, and never had any issues. Most problems come from dust/dirt (cards lying loose in some bag); wrong-side forced insertion; not turning the camera off; or - the absolute #1 - taking them out of Windows PCs before they are 'ejected' properly (which works very poorly in all Windows versions, and sometimes I do a reboot just for that). | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 12:58 | comment | added | Michael C | I use SD cards even less often than the rare occasion when I use a card reader for a CF card. CF cards don't have a "read only" switch. | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 12:47 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | An additional item for your best practice list that I use: Always switch the card to "read only" before inserting it into a card reader. Some OSes tend to create foolish folders on inserted cards, and this also helps if one should forget to "eject". | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 12:32 | history | edited | Michael C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2016 at 12:04 | history | answered | Michael C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |