Thread: X100 Very Slow Startup

Sue, I hear you on using the iPad for temporary storage and transferring from iPad to main computer. I just can't bring myself to trust the fragile little iPad to be the only repository on a trip. But that's just old/conservative me. When we take our two-week family holiday to the New Jersey shore this summer, a laptop and portable external hard drive will be part of the kit - really just for storage. Cumbersome, but when photos of children and grandchildren are involved, drastic measures must be taken!

Originally Posted by Crsnydertx

Sue, I hear you on using the iPad for temporary storage and transferring from iPad to main computer. I just can't bring myself to trust the fragile little iPad to be the only repository on a trip. But that's just old/conservative me. When we take our two-week family holiday to the New Jersey shore this summer, a laptop and portable external hard drive will be part of the kit - really just for storage. Cumbersome, but when photos of children and grandchildren are involved, drastic measures must be taken!

Chuck,

I don't have a laptop. For this New York trip, I invested in one of these:

Wolverine PicPac II 250GB Digital Camera and Camcorder 7625 B&H

After every shoot, I upload images to the ipad and then stick the card in this drive and back up all of the files before I put the card back in the camera and reformat it. Its easy, its relatively quick, it takes up very little space. If all goes well, I'll never use those files - I'll just upload from the ipad to the Mac when I get back. But if the ipad should somehow fail on me, I've got 'em. I tried it out before I left home and it works well and easily. All of the files are right there. Just something to consider.

Oh, and on the off chance of tsunami or some other catastrophe that leaves ALL storage dead but, somehow, me still alive, I'm posting a lot of shots to Flickr as an extra measure of security.

Where and when are you at the Shore? We're spending the bulk of June on LBI...

-Ray

Ray, my Philadelphia-based family has been vacationing in Ocean City for several generations, and my Texas-raised kids love it there as much as I do. I think our "cruise director" has set up a rental for late-July/early August. Can't wait!

Thanks for the tip on the storage device. I have a "picture safe" of some sort in a drawer around here somewhere; may need to consider an upgrade.

Okay, one last set of findings (pretty narrow subset of forum members would be affected:

1. iPad will NOT read an SD card that's locked, so that won't avoid the problem.
2. After uploading to iPad, X100 will have significant delay in starting - not just the first time after re-inserting the card but every time. However, if I then upload from card to my iMac, the card will start immediately upon re-insertion into X100! Conclusion is that iPad sets a bit or two that iMac comes back and resets. Crazy, but demonstrated twice.

Okay, thanks for indulging me on this esoteric subject. I know what I need to do to work around it.

Originally Posted by Crsnydertx

1. iPad will NOT read an SD card that's locked, so that won't avoid the problem.

Strange, my iPad did that.

Originally Posted by flysurfer

Strange, my iPad did that.

I should point out that I'm still using an original iPad, having skipped the 2 and waiting to see how some of the issues with the 3 are resolved.

Originally Posted by Crsnydertx

I should point out that I'm still using an original iPad, having skipped the 2 and waiting to see how some of the issues with the 3 are resolved.

I used an iPad 1.

FWIW, my experience with an iPad 2 is the same as Chuck's - can't copy to an ipad with the write protect tab in the locked position.

-Ray

Maybe a "feature" of new iOS versions?

Originally Posted by Crsnydertx

I should point out that I'm still using an original iPad, having skipped the 2 and waiting to see how some of the issues with the 3 are resolved.

AFAIAC there are no issues for the average user. If you are a gamer who wants to play 3D kill everything that moves, or flight sim games, you'll get hot. Otherwise not. Don't know if anything else has surfaced, but it sure hasnt for me. I love my new iPad (I had the iPad1 as well, and this is a hell of a step up)