Talk:Design rule for Camera File system

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Roots[edit]

Would the "root" folder on a Nikon D40 really be one named "NIKON D40", or wouldn't the "DCIM" folder actually appear in the topmost directory of the file system, which commonly has no name. Possibly "NIKON D40" is the default name of medium itself (e.g. memory card or built-in flash drive)?

mgroeber@gmx.net 84.133.24.117 (talk) 15:16, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

that it exactly my experience with d40x, a very similar camera. -- Sverdrup (talk) 14:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Under *NIX OSes the root directory is /root and/or the unnameable "/". Under DOS-based systems the highest level is the drive letter, with the "root directory" above that represented as the third "/" in "file:///C:/..." Neither of those are nameable. This article is more confusing than it is helpful...Skintigh (talk) 20:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

Merge the silly Camera filename structure here, not to Exif. Dicklyon (talk) 01:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MISC[edit]

Usually in digital camera SD cards there's also a folder called MISC. What's that? its always empty... I never see anything inside it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.160.46 (talk) 23:37, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to be for DPOF data. bruce89 (talk) 01:30, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"-" not accepted in the prefix[edit]

When I typed in 101-0001, on iPhones and iPods and put it into an SD card it does not show up, when I looked up the DCF standard, I already know it has to be 8 characters long, before the file number it must have four characters, but it doesn’t allow any special characters to be used except for "_", but it can use numbers or letters though, so even you could technically go from 00000001 to 99999999 and have all numbers in the file name instead of going from 0001 to 9999 with a prefix such like IMG_ or DCSF in which most camera manufacturers use. 2603:6011:E00:4C41:0:0:0:1001 (talk) 22:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]