How to Use Optional Settings

If you select [Optional Settings] from the [RICOH Gate Settings] menu, the [Optional Settings] dialog box appears.

2

 

Item

Description

Initial Setting

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.

[Automatically save on

If you check this box, once your camera is connected to the computer, the images

Transfer files auto-

 

connection]

are automatically downloaded and saved.

matically

 

 

If you uncheck the box, even when your camera is connected, your images will not

 

 

 

 

 

be downloaded automatically. Click the [Save] button when you want to download.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.

[Choose]

Specifies which folder to save your images in.

 

 

 

 

 

For Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.1, or earlier versions, it is in the [Caplio] folder of the

 

 

 

 

 

Root Directory on the Start-up disc [Macintosh HD].

 

 

 

 

 

For Mac OS 9.1 to 9.2.2, it is specified in the [Caplio] folder inside the [Documents]

 

 

 

 

 

folder on the Start-up disc [Macintosh HD], so if you want to change it, click the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Select] button and in the dialog box that appears, select the folder you wish to spec-

 

 

 

 

 

ify.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.

[Automatically create

Specifies how to create a folder.

Each day shot

 

folder on saving]

[Do not Create]

 

 

 

 

 

Your downloaded images will all be saved in the folder specified in item 2.

 

 

 

 

 

[For each date photographs]

 

 

 

 

 

Creates a new folder assigning the date it was shot as the folder name, and saves

 

 

 

 

 

images shot on the same day in the same folder.

 

 

 

 

 

For example, if shot on May 1, 2004: [20040501] folder

 

 

 

 

 

[Date Transferred + Number Transferred]

 

 

 

 

 

Creates a new folder for each time images are saved and saves the images shot at

 

 

 

 

 

the same time in the same folder.

 

 

 

 

 

For example, if saved twice on May 1, 2004:

 

 

 

 

 

[20040501_001] folder,

 

 

 

 

 

[20040501_002] folder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

[The same image will

You can specify this only when you have selected either [Day Shot] for folder name

Do not save same

 

not be saved.]

or if you did not check [Create a folder automatically when transferring] in [Create a

image

 

 

Folder].

 

 

 

 

 

Images imported once are not imported anymore. If you try to save a file to a folder

 

 

 

 

 

that has an image file of the same name, it will not be saved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.

[Save and start appli-

If this is checked, an application will be launched after saving. If this is unchecked,

Do not start applica-

 

cation software]

no application will be launched.

tion after transfer

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.

[Choose]

Specify the name of the application you want to launch after you save. Click the

 

 

 

 

 

[Choose] button to display the dialog box, and then specify which application to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ricoh Caplio GX operation manual How to Use Optional Settings, Description Initial Setting

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