I have a deep dislike using apps to move files around. In my experience,
most problems with lost files are caused by misbehaving apps. This is
exactly why I prefer to use the OS to do that. The steps sound like a lot
of work but in practice the ten steps below take at most 2 minutes.
I did not mention backup because that goes without saying but is not
directly related to the problem Mike raised. When I travel, I copy files
to my laptop and back them up to a large USB stick (they can be had up to
128 GB these days). When I come home, the stuff is moved to my desktop and
a backup drive.
Cheers,
Nathan
Op Di, 20 mei, 2014 11:01, schreef Moose:
> On 5/17/2014 9:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> I don't understand any of this, Mike. Here is a bullet-proof version of
>> getting RAW files from my camera into my computer:
>>
>> 1) Turn camera off.
>> 2) Take out the SD card.
>> 3) Put SD card into card reader connected to computer.
>> 4) Copy the RAW files from the card to a suitable directory on the
>> computer using the OS copy...paste command.
>> 5) Verify that the RAW files are in the destination directory.
>> 6) Erase the SD card.
>> 7) Remove the SD card from the card reader.
>> 8) Insert the SD card back into the camera.
>> 9) Turn camera on.
>> 10) Reformat the SD card.
>>
>> Repeat as necessary.
>
> All very solid, but for a couple of things.
>
> Most important is back-up. My images may be of no monetary value. But they
> are of great value to me. And, I've spent
> time, effort and money on gear and on being where I take them.
>
> For years, I did much the same, except:
>
> I read the cards every day there were more than a handful of shots.
> I further backed up the files to a portable hard drive, kept in a
> different place/piece of luggage from the computer.
> I used multiple cards not formatting any one until both full and all other
> cards full.
>
> This gave me two copies of all files and three of many by the end of a
> trip. This redundancy has saved my from potential
> losses, mostly user error, I admit.
>
> Lately, I've gone to large capacity cards, three 64 GB and three 32s. That
> way, I can go on a month trip with three
> cameras and possibly not have to change a card. I'm also experimenting
> with not taking a computer and using a gadget to
> copy the cards directly to the HD.
>
> Moving my computer life to the iPad in a way that works for weeks at a
> time, is turning out to be a challenge, but I may
> persevere unto victory.
>
> The second thing I don't much like is simply the multiple manual steps.
> When I come back from a long day out to our
> small RV and making dinner, or to someone else's house, where I want to be
> able to interact with them, I quite like just
> inserting card and letting an app put the files where they belong.
>
> One Step Moose
>
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