Wilko
Thanks for your contribution .
First of all , i would like to point out , why i want to use a card reader .
The FIREWIRE cable supplied with the CFV back is very stiff and has a very big plug on the CFV side . I think , the connector to any digital device , is a critical point . (mechanical)
I prefer to carefully replace a CF card than plugging in that big plug into the back .
With the problem i described , it is , as in many cases , where you try to fix a problem , you do a lot of things and sometimes you can't remember all the things you did .
For offloading the images , i used FLEXCOLOR for both , USB and FIREWIRE connections .
As you assumed at the beginning of your contribution .
I also did an offload using the operating system . And also threw the contents into trash .
That's leaving an empty CF card , but it is still formatted .
But in all cases , i reformatted the disk in the back . Therefore i can not answer that
question . But it is a good idea and i will try that and report the results .
Yes to me too , it looks as if FLEXCOLOR does different things to the CF card , when the images were unloaded by USB card reader or by FIREWIRE .
I will get the SANDISK FIREWIRE card reader , as mentioned above , on monday .......
If that turns out to be running as desired , what i do hope , then i will report the problem to HASSELBLAD .
Independant to the above , FLEXCOLOR does not behave stable on an OSX10.4.8 system running on an INTEL DUAL CORE CPU . I got many undefined FLEXCOLOR shut downs .
If HASSELBLAD people already know that ? ? ?