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<blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 618665" data-attributes="member: 7240">The manufacturers recommend reformatting the cards every time they are inserted into the camera. Probably to reduce the number of support calls? I've found that the cards and the camera firmware are much more robust than the manufacturers dare to give them credit for. I haven't formatted a card in years, and I have 50+ CF cards ranging between 128MB to 128GB and haven't had a glitch in at least three quarters of a million images and two dozen cameras in 18 years.I always put the card in a card reader and I use a script that copies the files to two different places in my computer, and erases the files from the card, all in one go. If the camera firmware was so buggy or the cards so fragile, that they couldn't sustain this kind of use, I'm sure I would have found out.The memory card is just a like a thumb drive and I don't format a thumb drive after every use either. But still, the manufacturers' recommendations are there and I don't know of any reason to not follow them. Just sayin' that the sky doesn't fall even if one doesn't format before every use. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="pforsell, post: 618665, member: 7240"] The manufacturers recommend reformatting the cards every time they are inserted into the camera. Probably to reduce the number of support calls? I've found that the cards and the camera firmware are much more robust than the manufacturers dare to give them credit for. I haven't formatted a card in years, and I have 50+ CF cards ranging between 128MB to 128GB and haven't had a glitch in at least three quarters of a million images and two dozen cameras in 18 years. I always put the card in a card reader and I use a script that copies the files to two different places in my computer, and erases the files from the card, all in one go. If the camera firmware was so buggy or the cards so fragile, that they couldn't sustain this kind of use, I'm sure I would have found out. The memory card is just a like a thumb drive and I don't format a thumb drive after every use either. But still, the manufacturers' recommendations are there and [B]I don't know of any reason to not follow them[/B]. Just sayin' that the sky doesn't fall even if one doesn't format before every use. :) [/QUOTE]

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