Re: [tlug] Tip of the Day: Repairing a corrupted DCIM card

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:

 > > after you've dumped all your pics onto a PC or whatever, it's best always
 > > to reformat the card in your camera before going out to your next shoot.
 > > This goes for any kind of card.
 > 
 > I've never once done this, in the five-plus years I've been playing
 > with digital cameras.

I don't know about "it's best", but my Fuji camera (about 3 years old
now) builds up cruft in the card, and needs to be reformated (oddly
enough, there doesn't seems to be a "garbage collect now" option in
the menu ;-).