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Picture Porter 35
User’s Guide
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15.5. Creating Multiple Partitions Picture Porter 35
Advanced users may choose to divide the hard drive on Picture
Porter 35 into multiple partitions. When the Picture Porter 35 hard
drive has 2 partitions, each partition will be seen as a separate
device. On the Picture Porter 35 screen, you will see two icons
labeled HD1
and HD2. When you connect Picture Porter 35 to your
computer, each partition will be displayed as a separate drive. If you
connect Picture Porter 35 to another Picture Porter 35 as the Target
device, the Main Picture Porter 35 will show 2 USB icons on the
Home Screen.
Practical benefits of using multiple partitions
:
One benefit to make separate partitions is to help you better
organize your data. You may want to use HD1 to hold your
permanent collection and use HD2 as a working directory. With this
structure, you can easily format HD2 and reset it after finishing one
event to give you a blank slate before starting the next. It’s easy to
use the file management features on Picture Porter 35 to copy
folders and files between your working directory on HD2 to your
permanent collection on HD1.
Working with multiple partitions on Picture Porter 35
:
When you insert a memory card or USB device and have 2 partitions
on your Picture Porter 35, the menu will include options to back up to
either HD1
or HD2. The BACKUP to HD2 will use the same Backup
folder structure and naming convention as the regular backup to
HD1.
With multiple partitions, the Backup
, Albums, Music, and Export
icons on the Home Screen and the Playlist
and MemoRec functions,
will still correspond with HD1
, the primary drive partition. To access
the contents of HD2, press ENTER on the HD2
icons from the Home
Screen.
When you have only HD1 on your Picture Porter 35, you can
simultaneously connect 3 external memory devices. You can insert a
memory card into one of the two slots between the mulit-card slot
(SD or MS/xD), a CF card, and you can connect a USB flash drive
with the USB-OTG cable. With this configuration, on the Home
Screen you will see HD1
along with 3 icons next to it for each of the
connected memory devices.