iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents

Jan 16, '04 10:34:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you have the "Erase camera contents after transfer" option checked when importing photos from a camera and all photos are not imported because your hard disk is full, all your photos will still be erased from your camera. I just lost about 100 photos this way. I'm a bit disappointed that the Apple programmers did not do error checking on this feature.

I have no idea about whether this problem still exists. I was using iPhoto 2.0 with MacOS X 10.2.8 Since photos once taken are irreplacable, it might be best never to use the "Erase Camera Contents..." option.

[robg adds: I've always been quite paranoid about digital pictures, and have never trusted the "erase from camera" option in any of the image loading programs I've used -- I always delete them myself from the camera via its menus after I'm 100% sure the images are safely on my (two, actually) hard drives.]

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