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[Rosemary]

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone tell me how to stop my Nikon P900 from dividing the photos taken into folders of around 250 photos each? My Nikon D5600 does not make separate folders.

Thanks in advance,

Rosemary

 

[Fletch]

P900 -- Max 200 files in SD folder?: Nikon Coolpix Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review

If you’re getting 250 you’re doing better then these people.

[Rosemary]

Thanks for the link. I shall hopefully get some suggestions from someone else too.

Rosemary

[Jerry_]

Hi,

To answer the question in short: you can’t stop your camera saving the files in folders, with sets of a few hundred files in each folder.

Your D5600 does the same, even so I think it does it for every 999 photos/files, rather than for sets of approximately 200.

The reason for this is linked to the filesystem and the way how it is managed. While I can’t tell you why for the P900 they opted for some max 200 photos per folder, I would suspect that it is linked to usability and perceived performance (which itself is linked to fileorganisation, average speed for accessing data on the SD card and internal processor).

Indeed a folder in a filestructure (also on your computer) is nothing but a register of what files are referenced in that folder (so it is not « a box in which the files are stocked », even so it looks like). Therefore it only keeps the names of the files, not their data/content. However opening a folder with some f.i. 200 files requires to retrieve and sort them (and the larger the number the more information needs to be retrieved and processed); thus the larger the number of files in a folder, the slower it will be.

[Rosemary]

Thanks Nikonian for your clear explanation. Now I know why the pictures are stored the way they are. I shall just have to put up with it! 

When we are on holiday we take >1000 pictures per week so I was hoping for an easy solution pointing to some setting.

 

Regards,

Rosemary