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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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On 2012-07-22, Ignoramus2844 <ignoramus2844@NOSPAM.2844.invalid> wrote:

>> Simple, don't delete the images when they are transferred until the card 
>> is almost full. And when he does transfer images only transfer the new 
>> ones, i.e., don't overwrite existing. Most s/w like Shotwell have a 
>> setting for that.
>
> I like that and it is easy to do: instead of deleting images, just
> "mv" them to a subdirectory "junk" or some such. 

You shouldn't even have to "mv" them.  Any decent download program or
photographic workflow software (even the ones that ship with Windows
and OS-X) will ignore previously downloaded files and only download
the new ones.

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