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I was shooting yesterday morning with my R5 set up as it has been for a long time with stills going to card 1 and video to card 2. It was a great day's shoot but when I got home and went imported my images I noticed I had up to 7 images with the exact same filename, so the import was adding a '-2' thru '-7' extension on them. The camera also had the image number roll over from 9999 to 0001, so I wound up with 7 folders each starting with files numbered 0001 and then jumping, inexplicably to 99xx. Hmmmm.
I put card 1 back in the reader and looked at what I had, and I saw that each time it created a new folder it would restart at 0001 and proceed until it jumped to a 99xx number. There was no rhyme or reason to when it jumped, but when that jump occurred the starting number incremented by 1 each time. Hmmmm again.
My first priority was getting the image file names sorted out so I could import them properly, but as I did that I thought about the second card and the video files on it. When I finally looked at them most were sequentially numbered even though they were shot throughout the day. There was a gap in numbering between the first (9951) and the next three (9962-9964) which were shot one after the other, but no gaps after that.
The TLDR of it all is that after the image file numbering rolled over on card 1 that never occurred on card 2, so every time I shot a video it got the next in sequence filename from card 2 and then continued from there on card 1. So after video 9965 wrote to card 2 the new folder on card 1 got 9966 and went on from there until it hit 9999, created another new folder, and started once again from 0001, with the process repeating every time I shot a video.
Has anyone ever experienced this?! Seems to me that this shouldn't happen.
Additional details that will likely be of interest to any sleuths here:
I put card 1 back in the reader and looked at what I had, and I saw that each time it created a new folder it would restart at 0001 and proceed until it jumped to a 99xx number. There was no rhyme or reason to when it jumped, but when that jump occurred the starting number incremented by 1 each time. Hmmmm again.
My first priority was getting the image file names sorted out so I could import them properly, but as I did that I thought about the second card and the video files on it. When I finally looked at them most were sequentially numbered even though they were shot throughout the day. There was a gap in numbering between the first (9951) and the next three (9962-9964) which were shot one after the other, but no gaps after that.
The TLDR of it all is that after the image file numbering rolled over on card 1 that never occurred on card 2, so every time I shot a video it got the next in sequence filename from card 2 and then continued from there on card 1. So after video 9965 wrote to card 2 the new folder on card 1 got 9966 and went on from there until it hit 9999, created another new folder, and started once again from 0001, with the process repeating every time I shot a video.
Has anyone ever experienced this?! Seems to me that this shouldn't happen.
Additional details that will likely be of interest to any sleuths here:
- No, I did not reformat card 1 before the shoot (this is usually a habit), but card 2 had been reformatted and had no images/videos at the start of the day.
- I'm using a custom naming prefix that allows me to identify the camera being used so there are no collisions across cameras.
- When I shoot video I simply press the record button at the top of the camera and do not specifically change camera modes.
- I've worked this way before and the file numbering across cards has always incremented consistently across the 2 cards when the 9999 threshold wasn't crossed.
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