wda Posted September 15, 2006 Share #1 Posted September 15, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) I know a lot of forum members have been interested in this portable hard drive. I have been pleased with mine for some time. However I have been puzzled over one issue. If I connect my P-2000 to my Windows XP computer and copy images to my internal hard drive I find that the Epson no longer shows any albums I have previously created on it. The original downloads are still visible on the Epson, by date entered. But the Epson Albums have just disappeared. Yet when I reconnect the Epson to my computer, my computer can point to the old Albums and read them. Why are they no longer shown on the Epson? I have searched Epson's support site and tried to post a query but the email format keeps questioning my declaration of computer hard disc space. Hence this appeal to Leica forum members. In advance, I thank you. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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albertwang Posted September 15, 2006 Share #2 Posted September 15, 2006 That's because you have to copy straight from the computer HD into an actual album folder on the Epson... If you copy straight to the regular HD of the Epson P2000, it will mess up the file structure so that the tree isn't read correctly. At least that's what I found on mine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdg Posted September 16, 2006 Share #3 Posted September 16, 2006 Correct, Albert! I have made a small Diashow with some pictures meeting exactly the monitor size of the P-2000 and than add a MP3 music file. It works well. But in the meantime I have given the P-2000 to my friend. The reason: I have updated my DMR with V 1.2 and this is FAT32. The P-2000 do not understand neither FAT32 nor the dng-files of the DMR. Regards Hans Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share #4 Posted September 16, 2006 Albert, thank you. However I was not trying to copy files from my computer to the P-2000; but the reverse. Why should copying files FROM the P-2000 leave the albums unreadable on the P-2000? I simply do not understand how corruption can take place. As stated, the original albums are still capable of being addressed from my computer. It is just the the P-2000 seems to have lost the linkage! David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted September 16, 2006 Share #5 Posted September 16, 2006 David, I'e no idea. I've copied images from my P-2000 to PC hard disk many times and everything is still ok on the P-2000 - i.e. I can still see the images. I don't use the album feature though, perhaps that's got something to do with the problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 17, 2006 Share #6 Posted September 17, 2006 That's because the internal chip automatically read from the tree structure. It's built in in the Epson so there's really nothing that you can do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted September 17, 2006 Share #7 Posted September 17, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) That's because the internal chip automatically read from the tree structure. It's built in in the Epson so there's really nothing that you can do. I don't understand Alfie. David is copying _from_ the device so nothing on it is changing. Yesterday I used the P-2000 to copy several hundred images from my Macbook to my PC. There were some existing data saved from memory cards on the device. I could still see those images, after copying the new ones manually to a folder on the P-2000. Perhaps it's a firmware issue? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share #8 Posted September 17, 2006 Steve, Thanks for your contribution. I generally copy new pictures to a named album, such as 'Spain 2006' so that I can check my digital pix easily while away travelling. In effect there are two copies of each picture on the P-2000. When I copy to my computer the original data remains unaffected; it is just that the Albums no longer show up on the Epson, although my XP system can still see them! It is not the end of the world. I was just wondering if anyone had found the answer. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 17, 2006 Share #9 Posted September 17, 2006 I don't know whether it's a firmware issue. I get a similar problem with my CoolWalker as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted September 18, 2006 Author Share #10 Posted September 18, 2006 I have now modified my procedure. If the P-2000 is the sole repository of travel images, I copy the desired images to a card and read from that into my computer. But I would still like to know why my computer can see P-2000 albums but the device cannot! David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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