Delete Images from Digital Camera

[Colin Law]

2009/6/3 Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net>:
> Matt Harrison wrote:
>>> I see that others solved your problem. Just for your information, you
>>> should regularly use the camera menu and reformat the memory card. I
>>> have taken several digital photography classes and the professional
>>> photographers that teach them all stress that you get into the habit of
>>> doing this. They tend to push for just do it every time, but seem to
>>> agree at least every third time.
>>>                       Linda
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>>
>> Did they provide a logical reason for doing this?  I'm curious as to
>> their reasoning for this.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>>
> Several reasons, the delete choices often leave things behind that
> clutter your memory card  and reduce the numbers of pictures it will
> hold, it makes sure the file structure and data are clean so you avoid
> errors or corrupted files and  related to that it makes the memory card
> more reliable less likely to have a corrupted card that is unreadable.
>            Linda
>

So it is to get over bugs in the camera software then?  I can believe
the argument about it being a good idea to avoid fragmentation but
there is no way that delete should not properly delete or that it
should lead to errors or corrupted files.

Colin