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Originally Posted by The Old Man
That did it! Thank you.
How come the small manual that came with the device doesn't tell you that?
Or is that something everyone knows except a dummy like me?  |
the DCIM (
Digital
Camera
IMages) is a spec manufacturers came up with a few years back so that you could take a card from camera to camera and they would be organized in a semi-standard fashion. the photos app only knows to scan that directory for any of it's supported file types (.jpg and .raw work, .pdf doesn't).
dropping your own pictures in there is a "cheat". the ipad doesn't know they didn't come from a camera over your desktop. on the other hand, anything not in that directory is safe from being scanned. while sub-directories are scanned for files, the directory structure is
not preserved, so save yourself the hassle from organizing them on the card only to have it ignored.
it was mentioned in my mini-review on the first page, under "Unsupported Devices".