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11-May-2008, 08:31 PM #1
DCIM folder/import help
Hello, I tried searching to see if this question was asked but I didn't see it so here it goes...

My mother has a digital camera that I typically use most of the time. It is a Sony DSC-N2 Cyber-shot camera. The memory card that I use is a Sandisk Pro Duo 2.0 gb.

When we first started using the camera it was saving the pictures in folders using MM/DD/YYYY on the memory card and if it was a different day or whatever it would create a new folder so all I had to do was click the option of just importing the new folders on my computer. A couple months later it now only saves them under the DCIM folder, then a subfolder named 101MSDCF, where it just dumps all the pics there and no longer saves the way I used to like it. So now to import I have to create a new folder in my pics open the folder from the memory card highlight the ones from that day and put it there so it doesn't import all the pics from that folder. I was wondering if there is a way of having it save the way it used to instead of the DCIM, subfolder 101MSDCF. I tried going to the menu on my digital camera but all I could do is see what folder the pics are saving into, which is the 101 folder thing and cannot change it..

I hope that makes sense, and thanks for the help in advance!
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11-May-2008, 10:46 PM #2
DCIM simply means 'digital camera images' and will always stay. The format of other sub folders can be in the 'set up' menu of the camera. I think you are looking in the 'record' menu.

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12-May-2008, 02:37 PM #3
I can go to set up on my camera then I can go to memory stick.. the only options I have is Format, Create REC. Folder, Change REC. Folder and Copy. The Rec. folders are the 101MSDCF subfolders then I can create a 102 folderor 103 folder, etc.. Any other suggestions so I can just have separate folders for a different day that I take pictures?
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14-May-2008, 03:22 AM #4
What program do you use to transfer your images from the cameras to the PC ?

As far as I can see, the Sony software imports into date folders by default. However on the card it will NOT be in a date folder, just the DCIM folder.

Last edited by PopPicker : 14-May-2008 03:32 AM. Reason: more info
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