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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #100 on: 27 / November / 2008, 09:51:26 »
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@whim
Thank you for implementation.  8)

About button: forget it, I have not made proper tests, maybe I did some mistake.
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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #101 on: 27 / November / 2008, 11:27:49 »
@kofola

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About button: forget it, I have not made proper tests, maybe I did some mistake

the logic of the "Make Bootable" button is this:   (in case you're interested  :D)

"File System: FAT32" --> button greyed out (card > 4 GB or you need to Format as FAT first)

"File System: FAT"     --> button greyed out if already bootable ("CHDK Autorun: ON ...")
                                         button available if not yet bootable ("CHDK Autorun: OFF ...")

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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #102 on: 27 / November / 2008, 16:43:03 »
Update CardTricks143.zip - 410 kB

  • Added support for CCHDK.CFG - better late than never  :lol

  • Resizing ("GUI Config") now no longer forces you to re-select the card

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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #103 on: 01 / December / 2008, 03:26:06 »
wim,
if you have some time available in this pre-X-Mas days  :xmas ...

Adding ewavr's show_bad_b (Wikia article) would be fine since many users need a badpixel list for the new DNG shooting feature.
Creating the list with show_bad_b is very simple, but some people fail already on downloading the program file, so with CT they only have to click the right button(s)...yeah, i know, we coddle the kids !

A possible implementation could be:
- a dialog box with a short intro (usage)
- a file select dialog box to let the user select a RAW file
- calling show_bad_b.exe with this file
- maybe a 'save as...' dialog with the created badpixel file to let the user save it somewhere
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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #104 on: 01 / December / 2008, 05:10:50 »
@fe50

thanks, working on it.

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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #105 on: 01 / December / 2008, 15:18:45 »
@fe50

i've stopped working on this, ewavr's gonna do it in-camera:

Save RAW files in DNG format instead of RAW

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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #106 on: 02 / December / 2008, 16:03:16 »
Hi wim,
yes, this would be the best choice...
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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #107 on: 15 / December / 2008, 21:15:50 »
Hello All!
To the point quickly-

Does anyone know what would be involved to use a pocket PC to run card tricks?  Is there some version already available?

The situation-
I travel for months with my camera (and pocket pc!), and it would be good to perform low-level formats on the memory cards.  The PC can easily re-load the required CHDK software, which is great, but it's that bootable part that seems elusive.  Not sure what happens to make the SD card bootable, it doesn't take but an instant (so probably not much?), but that part seems to require a regular PC (so far).
Beyond the issue of needing access to a PC (which isn't too big of a deal in itself as many public pc's are usually available in developing countries), there is the issue of being able to load software (i.e. card tricks on public computers), and virus contamination is always a concern (particularly in developing countries).  Fortunately, regular viruses don't seem to bother the PPC's (very different architecture), but who wants to risk the media that photos will reside?
Love the CHDK project, I've spread the word to all users that I know!


Regards,
Rob G.
rgray1736   "at"  hotmal  "dot" com
« Last Edit: 15 / December / 2008, 21:19:34 by rgray1736 »
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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #108 on: 19 / December / 2008, 06:22:50 »
1. it must have an info that fat-formatting(also the remaining steps?) is only possible with admin-rights.
2. after making it bootable it says to write-protect. that is too early.
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Re: Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards
« Reply #109 on: 19 / December / 2008, 09:16:19 »
@europanorama

1. Works without demanding privileges on a vanilla standard user account on Vista SP1 for me.
    On vanilla XP Home as well: 'Users' group has read/execute rights on format.com (just checked)
     Obviously, if your security settings won't allow limited rights users to format removable media,
     you will need admin rights to successfully do this. Requiring Admin rights for the whole program
     would rob limited rights users of the possibility to use other functions (getting card info, copying, etc.)
     

2. Last time I looked it said:
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Do not forget to set Write Protect
on the card (slide tab up, away from
the electric connectors) to take
advantage of this feature.

Don't know about you, but for me the bolded sections are just reminding
the user to lock the card before putting it back into the cam ...
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