Uploading photos

[bulentacar]

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Hi, 

 

A curious issue: whether using a card reader or the USB after the upload the camera says "no images" but if I connect it again via the card reader or USB the images are still there. So the only way I can delete them is by formatting the card. I went to the Leica shop with this and their technical department didn't have an answer. Any suggestions/ideas will be appreciated.

 

 

[Leica Guy]

My understanding is it's a best practice to only delete photos on a memory card in the camera using the format function. I never delete using the computer after downloading.

[pico]

My understanding is it's a best practice to only delete photos on a memory card in the camera using the format function. I never delete using the computer after downloading.

 

It is not necessary to 'overwrite' old data on your card, which besides taking a long time, lowers the life of the SD card, but not  much. It still wastes your time. Some users think it somehow cleanses the SD card to make it virgin. I does not. It erases your content, but the fundamental organization of the card is untouched. Full erase is a waste of time. There is a partition in your SD card that is untouchable.

Edited December 13, 2016 by pico

[microview]

If you are saying that on reinserting the SD card after transferring images to computer via card reader, the camera warns that there are none to view, that is very odd! Obviously if you delete singly or by reformatting then the unwanted files have gone, but that does not seem to be what you are describing. And uploading via USB (which few of us do) would still leave those images on the SD card to view in camera.

Edited December 14, 2016 by microview

[SonomaBear]

I use a very conservative (read: old fashioned) workflow with all digital cameras.

Rule #1: cards are cheap unless you are shooting 4K video or have a 50K sensor with machine gun shooting.  I never leave home without at least eight cards.  Lock each SD upon removal from camera!

Rule #2: Make your first copy before you take your first bite of food or cocktail.  I carry a portable hard drive (WD Passport) with integrated SD slot.  Turn on, insert used cards, monitor progress with phone app or laptop.

Rule #3: Make your second copy before dinner when you return to wherever you are staying.  Pull out your laptop (iPad) and make 2nd copies.

Rule #4:  Make sure that #2 app has a cloud backup.  Apple's iCloud, Lightroom's Creative Cloud  backup to sync elsewhere, Google, Amazon, Lord only knows...  The backup to cloud can occur while you sleep.  You still have #1 & #2 if something wonky happens.

Rule #5: Now (and only now) put the card into your carry case upside down.  This signals that the card contains images but has at least one backup.

Rule #6:  Have fun.  Then get home safely.  Then read every card into your main computer and store on an external drive.  They are cheap. A video production shop just gave me 6 of them!

Rule #7:  Once you have all this backup, read these SD cards into your primary app.  I use Lightroom CC at home and Lightroom Mobile while traveling.  I always feel better when the iPad has already sync'ed to LR CC and files are already home, safe and sound.  I have a new MacBook on order to replace the iPad/LR Mobile with a real Mac and LR CC.

Rule #8: Put cards back into your case with label right side up.  This tells you that they are ready to reuse.  BUT if you lose an original, it is still on a card until you need to reuse the card.

 

I am tempted to do a triage in the hotel, deleting the rejects, but instead I flag the "deletes" with X and flag the very best with P while in the hotel.  I still have every image in several places.

 

After everything had been through "post", I select all the X images and delete them from the entire library.  They are still on the original backup drive and SD card.

Every six months, I backup the portable hard drive to a desktop drive then delete all the images for a fresh start collecting in the field.

 

What is next?  Externals are so inexpensive and so portable, I may just get a bunch to store the original field backups on cheap hard drives and file them away when full -- labeled with date range.  Clients always know the shoot dates when they want something a year or two later.  RAW files are forever!

 

Sorry to be so wordy.  I take backup very seriously -- until I get a cloud 1,000 TB drive...

 

[bulentacar]

microview

 

Yes, that is what I am saying. After upload (whether via USB or card reader) the camera says 'none to view' but the images are still on the card.

 

I've been to one branch of Leica in London now I am going to try the other where I actually purchased the camera.

Edited December 19, 2016 by bulentacar

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Hi, 

 

A curious issue: whether using a card reader or the USB after the upload the camera says "no images" but if I connect it again via the card reader or USB the images are still there. So the only way I can delete them is by formatting the card. I went to the Leica shop with this and their technical department didn't have an answer. Any suggestions/ideas will be appreciated.

Members might be better able to give advice if you said which operating system and which app you are using on your computer.

[Kiku]

Hi,

 

As I understand it, deleting images in camera remain on card but can't be viewed though they can, with the right software, be recovered. Formatting the card on the other hand, images are totally gone, wiped out.

[fotografr]

On 12/19/2016 at 6:51 AM, bulentacar said:

microview

 

Yes, that is what I am saying. After upload (whether via USB or card reader) the camera says 'none to view' but the images are still on the card.

 

I've been to one branch of Leica in London now I am going to try the other where I actually purchased the camera.

After upload, when you put your card back in the camera are you formatting the card? If not, do that and make sure the little tab on the side of the card isn't in the locked position.