david_a._wong Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Hello all, I recently acquired an Espon P-2000 and have just returned from a 2 month shooting trip. During this trip I was daily downloading my day's shots for storage. Question 1: Why does the P-2000 store the images with such a deep and large file tree? i.e. EPSON_PV (D:)/20051015/20051015.001/DCIM/760CANON/IMG_1101 Why can't it just store it under the date as my Canon does when you download it directly on to my computer? Needless to say, when you're downloading hundreds or thousands of images as I am now, such a deep file tree is a HUGE pain in the can! Question 2: Is there anyway to have the P-2000 download images in a smaller file tree as I have described? Thanks in advance! David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_beck Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 I have the P-2000 and ran into a similar problem. I got a tree that looked like 20050616\20050616.001\DCIM\100Olymp. Through experimentation, I found that if you copied the data to an "album" on the same P-2000, the tree flattened to Albums\ALBMxxxx where xxxx is the album number. You can name albums but the name will not appear in the tree displayed in the P-2000. There is a file on the P-2000 called ALBMST that contains a map from ALBMxxxx to the name you created for the album. Its a pain and I wish Epson had kept the user specified album name in the tree but I can understand that since it has to work with multiple systems (OSs), they had to pick a neutral format that would work for all. Hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 It is a date code - for the directory. In all likelihood, each card you download gets a new directory. That is good! Many cameras start numbering over with each new card, or if the camera hickups (my D1X has done that a couple of times). If you downloaded to the same directory, files with the same name would be overwritten. Besides, you can copy the files to your hard drive in any directory you wish, even as you retrieve them. Directory trees are your friend (makes a nice mantra). They are the key to organization and retrieval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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