Ollie no doubt people will have conflicting ideas as to what is best, so I'm not advocating any specific way.
What I do and have done for the past 4-5 years is to format via the PC, initially as Fat, but since the advent of larger cards as Fat 32.
I've never ever used the delete function, the main reason being that on my first major Digicam, the Minolta D7, deleting images still left the folders on disk.
I carried on with the same procedure when upgrading to the Canon 300D in Sept 2003.
Have never had a card failure, other than a Microdrive. since then have only ever used C/flash.
My original 100Mb cards are still in continual use by my son, who appears to have laid claim to the Minolta.
Harry
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