D800 will not format CF card

Blade Canyon

Senior Member
The D800 has an SD card slot and a CF card slot. I only own one CF card and use it as back up.

Now it is getting full, and I have no way to delete the files on it because there is no CF card reader than I can hook to my computer. (I don't have the right cable to hook the D800 directly to the computer.)

To delete the files with the camera, I can only delete one file at a time. In an effort to delete all of them in one swoop, I tried to get the camera to reformat the CF card. The camera gives me the warning "All Files Will Be Deleted." Fine, I hit Yes OK, and the camera does nothing. It just leaves up the error message and it does not reformat the card.

Is there any camera command to delete all files?
 
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gfinlayson

Senior Member
Press the two format buttons on the body (delete next to play button and mode button) and hold them until "For" flashes on the top LCD, release them, rotate the front command dial to select the CF and press them again to format the card.

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Marcel

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Staff member
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The OK button is not the same button you use to select stuff from the menu (Center of the arrows), it's on the left of the screen in the bottom. Now don't ask me how I know. :)
 

Blade Canyon

Senior Member
Hey, Marcel, you are right, too! Thank you. I never even knew what that little lower-left OK button was for. That's the magic button to format the CF card. Both of you guys get a Best Answer vote from me.
 

Danno

Senior Member
The OK button is not the same button you use to select stuff from the menu (Center of the arrows), it's on the left of the screen in the bottom. Now don't ask me how I know. :)

Marcel, it is the same on the 700... and I won't ask if you don't ask me :D
 

mrbean

New member
Connect the camera to your computer and open the camera file, High light the first file, press and hold shift and high light the last file, they should all be highlighted. Right click on any off them and chose delete.
 
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