Our FlashPac creates a new folder for every transfer.
No problems so far...

/EL

On Sep 27, 2005, at 11:55 PM, andy Kolovos wrote:

>> At 08:41 PM 9/27/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>> hello there,
>>> Wolverine's FlashPac will allow you to transfer to a drive without a
>>> computer:
>>> http://www.wolverinedata.com/
>>>
>
>
>> Do you have a Woverine FlashPac? I have two ImageTanks from Taiwan
>> and they're underwhelming. They have 40G drives in them.
>>
>> Epson makes something that lets you see pictures, but should work
>> with sound as well.
>>
>> The Wolverine looks to be the most aggressively priced.
>>
>>
>
> I've been rolling around the utility of these photo vault things
> for CF
> audio transfer and storage under field conditions for a while now,
> but no
> one has been able to give me a straight answer and I haven't been
> willing
> to risk spending the money and having it fail.
>
> Has anyone used the Wolverine to upload audio off a flash card? If
> so,
> did it work? The only thing I was really worried about was file
> naming.
> For example, the PMD670 has a default numerical file naming system
> (something like 0001.WAV, etc.). I imagine one would have to keep
> track
> of what numbers had been used and renumber new files via the recorder
> before uploading them so as not to overwrite files already on the
> photo
> vault. This make sense?
>
> There are also some stand alone portable CD burners that write data
> discs
> from CF cards--a photographer buddy of mine has one of these--but
> I'm not
> sure if he's tried it with audio yet. I imagine that as long as
> the file
> was under 650/700 megs, this could work too. Anyone given this a
> whirl?
>
> andy
>
> --
> Andy Kolovos
> Archivist/Folklorist
> Vermont Folklife Center
> www.vermontfolklifecenter.org
> akolovos @ vermontfolklifecenter.org
>