Thank you both. I was hoping there was a way to get it to do that ' auto ' but no such luck. Manual it is.
Many thanks for the help.
Andrew
You're setting yourself up for picture loss with multiple folders on a card. You will forget to switch folders and put photos in the wrong folder. At some point, you will forget to check a folder for new photos because you thought you had already copied everything from there the day before. Then you'll format the card, and away go a bunch of photos.
Better to use your transfer software to deal with the folders for multiple shooting sessions. I use Nikon's ViewNX2 which has their transfer utility built in. It automatically creates folders on the harddrive for each day's shooting. It can rename files and name folders according to almost any pattern you choose. If I have two different shooting sessions in a single day, I just manually select some of them and let Transfer do its work. Then, I select the rest and let Transfer finish copying any photos on the card.
There are other utilities that are good at this and some might say even better. I get along with Nikon's software, so I haven't bothered investigating the rest.
