Erasing images on the EOS 6D Mark II

Article ID: ART174074 | Date published: 04/25/2019 | Date last updated: 04/26/2019
 

Description

Erasing images on the EOS 6D Mark II

Solution

You can either select and erase unnecessary images one by one or erase them in one batch. Protected images will not be erased.
  Once an image is erased, it cannot be recovered. Make sure you no longer need the image before erasing it. To prevent important images from being erased accidentally, protect them. Erasing a RAW+JPEG image will erase both the RAW and JPEG images.

Erasing a single image.
 

1. Select the image to be erased.

  • Press the <> button to play back images.
  • Turn the <> dial to select the image to be erased.

2. Press the <> button.

  • The Erase menu will appear.

3. Erase the image.

  • Select [Erase], then press <. The image displayed will be erased.
 If the search conditions are set with [2: Set image search conditions], only the found images will be displayed.
 

Checkmarking [] images to be erased in a batch.
By adding checkmarks <✓> to the images to be erased, you can erase all those images at once..

1. Select [Erase images].

  • Under the [1] tab, select [Erase images], then press <>.

2. Select [Select and erase images].

  • An image will be displayed.

 

3. Select the images to be erased.

  • Turn the <> dial to select the image to be erased, then press <>.
  • A checkmark <✓> will be displayed on the upper left of the screen.
  • If you press the <> button and turn the <> dial counterclockwise, you can select an image from a three-image dispay. To return to the single-image display, turn the dial clockwise.
  • To select another image to be erased, repeat step 3.

4. Erase the image.

  • Press the <> button, then press [OK]..
  • The selected images will be erased at once.
 Under  [2: Set image search conditions], if [Protect] is set to [Enable], [1: Erase images] cannot be selected.

Specifying the range of images to be erased
While looking at the images in the index display, you can specify the first and last images for a range to erase all the specified images at once.

1. Select [Select range].

  • Select [Select range] in [1: Erase images.], then press <>.

2. Specify the range of images.

  • Select the first image (start point), then press <>.
  • Next, select the last image (end point), then press <>.
  • A checkmark [✓] will be appended to all the images within the specified range.
 

3. Press the <> button.

4. Erase the image.

  • Select [OK].
  • The images in the specified range will be erased.
  If the search conditions are set with [2: Set image search conditions], only the found images will be displayed.

Erasing all images in a folder or on a card.
You can erase all the images in a folder or on a card at once. 
When [ 1: Erase images] is set to [All images in folder] or [All images on card], all the images in the folder or card will be erased.

If the search conditions are set with [2: Set image search conditions], the display will change to [All found images].
If you select [All found images], all the found images will be erased as specified.
 
  • To also erase protected images, format the card.

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