After several years of using an Olympus WS200S audio recorder for simple speech recordings, (very good, for what it is) I decided to upgrade to an LS-5.
Wow, what a difference! It's a fine piece of kit, and I'm very pleased. I really didn't expect the build quality to be quite as good as it is !...
Sorry, I digress. Once I'd finished messing about with my initial experiments, I formatted the internal memory, and the SD card, and did a menu reset. Start from scratch again, I thought.
Except that the sequential file numbering system hasn't reset.
According to the manual: "after formatting, recorded audio files may start from [0001]"...
Trouble is, I don't quite know what that means?
Is it a bad translation that means 'will' start from 0001 again, or is it simply a matter of chance whether it works?
Perhaps it means 'may start' or 'may not start' from 0001 again? Doesn't seem quite right, being 'iffy' like that.
No luck from Olympus support (so far), so I was wondering if anyone can confirm whether it works on their machine---or if there's another way of resetting the counter that I've missed?
If it's faulty, then the device needs to be replaced.
Just seems on odd way of describing it --'may' start from 0001 again, after a format...?