[H-GEN] file recovery tools

[Peter Arnold]

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Greg Black" <gjb at gbch.net>
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>>What I find odd is that the camera really should just ignore the
>>off switch until it's ready to be turned off.  After all, that
>>would be really simple to do and would prevent these little
>>mishaps.

I came to the conclusion that powering off while saving was the problem after reading through the NG posts of similar problems. I'm now of the opinion I have a dodgey CF card as I've tried another card with taking both photos and movies and turning the camera off shortly after and during the take and cannot corrupt the card. So the camera does seem to perform as it should.

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> 
> My first thought when I read the original post, surely the
> power button would not be a physical disconnection of the battery
> from the circuit board ?
> 
> Why not check for activity, before powering off ?

Being a digital camera newbie, it hadn't occured to me there would be some appreciable delay between taking photo and saving to CF. Still, I agree with many of the previous comments that the camera software should have enough smarts to save before cutting power.

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Cheers
Peter Arnold

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