Exactly! I've done that in a school environment (where ANYTHING that they can
stuff up, they will). The only step I haven't use was the 6. Erase card.
Formatting in the camera, for the camera every time that you load should kill
anything. And Oly makes it easy by putting the Card Set-up at the top of the
menu.
I have forgotten the routine from time to time though and yesterday I used a
spare small SD card from the drawer (I bought a bulk lot so that I could give
them away if necessary) to do some ebay shots quickly and found myself looking
at shots I took at Christmas lunch 2012. Damn.
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On 18/05/2014, at 2:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I don't understand any of this, Mike. Here is a bullet-proof version of
> getting RAW files from my camera into my computer:
>
> 1) Turn camera off.
> 2) Take out the SD card.
> 3) Put SD card into card reader connected to computer.
> 4) Copy the RAW files from the card to a suitable directory on the computer
> using the OS copy...paste command.
> 5) Verify that the RAW files are in the destination directory.
> 6) Erase the SD card.
> 7) Remove the SD card from the card reader.
> 8) Insert the SD card back into the camera.
> 9) Turn camera on.
> 10) Reformat the SD card.
>
> Repeat as necessary.
>
> It has been 10 years since I switched from film to digital. In those 10
> years, I have had cameras from Canon, Panasonic, Olympus, Leica and Fuji. The
> above procedure works with any camera brand, does not require any special
> software (obviously, the RAW files are processed in Lightroom in subsequent
> steps, but no special software is used for the actual transfer to the
> computer), and has not failed me once in those 10 years.
>
> Why complicate your life with software provided by the camera maker (usually
> junk) or Downloader Pro or PIE (whatever that is)?
>
> Cheers,
> Simple Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>
> YNWA
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> On May 18, 2014, at 4:15 AM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
>
>> Transferred a few files as usual with zoombrowser and updated GM-1
>> firmware--recommended strongly to reformat card so I did.
>> Raw files were on the card-- I checked to be sure cam set OK. All seemed
>> well but went to process a file to be sure debugged the entire procedure and
>> oooooops,
>> no raw files. I had just one nice shot that is now gone in raw but
>> suspect now the Canyon utility doesn't see 'em. I think Downloader Pro and
>> picture info extractor mentioned before
>> but not sure what to use. There is a paid version of PIE that enables
>> changing metadata. Thought I'd better check here. Good thing I checked
>> before the trip.
>>
>> Incomplete transfer, Mike
>>
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