Protecting Images

You can protect important images from being accidentally erased.

Protecting a Single Image

Select [: Protect images].
Select [Select images].
Select an image.
- Use the keys to select the image to be protected.
Protect the image.
- Press to protect the selected image, after which it will be labeled with a icon (1) at the top of the screen.
- To cancel protection and clear the icon, press again.
- To protect another image, repeat steps 3 and 4.

While looking at the images in the index display, you can specify the first and last images for a range to protect all the specified images at once.

Select [Select range].
- Select [Select range] in [: Protect images].
Specify the range of images.
- Select the first image (start point).
- Next, select the last image (end point). The images in the specified range will be protected and the icon will appear.
- To select another image to be protected, repeat step 2.

You can protect all the images in a folder or on a card at once.

When you select [All images in folder] or [All images on card] in [: Protect images], all the images in the folder or on the card will be protected.
To cancel the selection, select [Unprotect all images in folder] or [Unprotect all images on card].
If the search conditions are set with [: Set image search conditions] (), the display will change to [All found images] and [Unprotect all found].
- If you select [All found images], all the images filtered by the search conditions will be protected.
- If you select [Unprotect all found], the protection of all the filtered images will be canceled.

Caution

Note

Once an image is protected, it cannot be erased by the camera's erase function. To erase a protected image, you must first cancel the protection.
If you erase all the images (), only the protected images will remain. This is convenient when you want to erase all unnecessary images at once.