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  Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-04 21:57 -0700
    Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-05 05:11 +0000
      Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-04 23:58 -0700
    Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-05 18:35 +0000
      Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-05 19:24 +0000
        Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-06 08:05 +1000
          Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-05 23:51 -0400
            Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-06 18:46 +1000
              Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-06 19:26 +0000
              Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-06-08 20:58 +0000
                Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-12 19:44 +0200
                  Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-12 13:59 -0400
                  Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-12 22:21 +0000
                  Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-13 08:55 +1000
        Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2014-06-05 15:57 -0700
          Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-05 19:00 -0400
            Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-12 19:46 +0200
              Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-12 13:59 -0400
            Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-06-13 14:16 +0000
              Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-13 10:29 -0400
                Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-06-13 21:33 +0000
          Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 02:25 +0000
        Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-06 02:08 +0000
          Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 02:27 +0000
            Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-06 03:18 +0000
              Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 03:31 +0000
              Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-06-06 15:10 +0000
                Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-06 19:27 +0000
                  Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 23:30 +0000
                  Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-06-07 13:41 +0000
                    Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-07 21:04 +0000
                Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 23:29 +0000
        Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-06-07 02:13 +0200
      Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-06-06 15:10 +0000
    Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new   ones... "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-06-06 01:03 +0000
      Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new   ones... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-06 06:37 -0700
        Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-06-06 15:10 +0000
    Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-06-05 23:46 -0400
      Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-06 06:29 -0700

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#22847

On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:29:58 UTC, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> 
wrote:

> In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-TSV14iPTqRVJ@localhost>, John Varela
> <newlamps@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > > > 2. Saving the camera's battery power.
> > > 
> > > it doesn't take that long to copy photos and it uses minimal power
> > > anyway.
> > 
> > Unless you forget to turn off the camera afterwards, which I often 
> > do. Which is why I have two spare batteries. One card; three 
> > batteries.
> 
> a card reader is a lot cheaper than spare batteries.

I overstated. I need three batteries because these little Canon 
NB-5L batteries can't support a day's shooting especially if there 
is video involved. I don't think I've ever actually had to use the 
third battery, but it's there in case of need.

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#22342

On 2014-06-05, Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <bvbuf8Fq80qU2@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-06-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> > In message <JKudncwMbp9fZRLOnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>> >   Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>> >> Hello.
>> >
>> >> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
>> >> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
>> >> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
>> >> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
>> >> digital camera's memory?
>> >
>> > Why would you pull them directly off the camera instead of off the SD
>> > card (or whatever cards).
>> 
>> Why wouldn't you? If you don't have a card reader, transferring from the
>> camera itself (with the card still in it) works just fine.
>
> Two reasons:
>
> 1. A card reader might be faster than the camera.

How so? And that does me no good if I don't have a card reader to begin
with.

> 2. Saving the camera's battery power.

A typical import takes just a minute or so. If it's a choice between
copying my photos directly from the camera or not copying them at all,
I'll gladly use the little bit of battery required. 

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#22338

In message <bvbuf8Fq80qU2@mid.individual.net> 
  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2014-06-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <JKudncwMbp9fZRLOnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>>   Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>
>>> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
>>> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
>>> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
>>> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
>>> digital camera's memory?
>>
>> Why would you pull them directly off the camera instead of off the SD
>> card (or whatever cards).

> Why wouldn't you? If you don't have a card reader, transferring from the
> camera itself (with the card still in it) works just fine.

In my (albeit limited) experience, transferring from the camera is orders
of magnitude slower.

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#22345

On 2014-06-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <bvbuf8Fq80qU2@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-06-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <JKudncwMbp9fZRLOnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>>>   Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>
>>>> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
>>>> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
>>>> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
>>>> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
>>>> digital camera's memory?
>>>
>>> Why would you pull them directly off the camera instead of off the SD
>>> card (or whatever cards).
>
>> Why wouldn't you? If you don't have a card reader, transferring from the
>> camera itself (with the card still in it) works just fine.
>
> In my (albeit limited) experience, transferring from the camera is orders
> of magnitude slower.

Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
just fine.

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#22347

In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2014-06-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <bvbuf8Fq80qU2@mid.individual.net> 
>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On 2014-06-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>>> In message <JKudncwMbp9fZRLOnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>>>>   Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>>> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
>>>>> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
>>>>> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
>>>>> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
>>>>> digital camera's memory?
>>>>
>>>> Why would you pull them directly off the camera instead of off the SD
>>>> card (or whatever cards).
>>
>>> Why wouldn't you? If you don't have a card reader, transferring from the
>>> camera itself (with the card still in it) works just fine.
>>
>> In my (albeit limited) experience, transferring from the camera is orders
>> of magnitude slower.

> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
> just fine.

True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
was excruciatingly slow. So....

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#22349

On 2014-06-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-06-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <bvbuf8Fq80qU2@mid.individual.net> 
>>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2014-06-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>>>> In message <JKudncwMbp9fZRLOnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>>>>>   Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>
>>>>>> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
>>>>>> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
>>>>>> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
>>>>>> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
>>>>>> digital camera's memory?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why would you pull them directly off the camera instead of off the SD
>>>>> card (or whatever cards).
>>>
>>>> Why wouldn't you? If you don't have a card reader, transferring from the
>>>> camera itself (with the card still in it) works just fine.
>>>
>>> In my (albeit limited) experience, transferring from the camera is orders
>>> of magnitude slower.
>
>> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
>> just fine.
>
> True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
> was excruciatingly slow. So....

True.

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#22369

Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

.
> 
>> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
>> just fine.
> 
> True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
> was excruciatingly slow. So....


It's iPhoto that slows transfer down!
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#22391

In message <lmsll2$koc$3@dont-email.me> 
  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> .
>> 
>>> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
>>> just fine.
>> 
>> True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
>> was excruciatingly slow. So....

> It's iPhoto that slows transfer down!

That is not my experience with iPhoto. Importing pictures is very fast.

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#22394

On 2014-06-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <lmsll2$koc$3@dont-email.me> 
>   Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
>>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> .
>>> 
>>>> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
>>>> just fine.
>>> 
>>> True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
>>> was excruciatingly slow. So....
>
>> It's iPhoto that slows transfer down!
>
> That is not my experience with iPhoto. Importing pictures is very fast.

In this case, the OP is complaining that iPhoto takes time to scan
photos that have already been imported. In that respect, Erilar is
correct.

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#22458

Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <lmsll2$koc$3@dont-email.me> 
>   Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
>>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> .
>>> 
>>>> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
>>>> just fine.
>>> 
>>> True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
>>> was excruciatingly slow. So....
> 
>> It's iPhoto that slows transfer down!
> 
> That is not my experience with iPhoto. Importing pictures is very fast.

You are either not importing many or have never tried another method 8-)


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#22480

In message <lmv4q5$1a7$2@dont-email.me> 
  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <lmsll2$koc$3@dont-email.me> 
>>   Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>>> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>>> In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
>>>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> .
>>>> 
>>>>> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
>>>>> just fine.
>>>> 
>>>> True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
>>>> was excruciatingly slow. So....
>> 
>>> It's iPhoto that slows transfer down!
>> 
>> That is not my experience with iPhoto. Importing pictures is very fast.

> You are either not importing many or have never tried another method 8-)

I only import from either a card reader of directly from a iOS device.
Both methods are much much *MUCH* faster than connecting my camera and
importing from there. 10 times faster? Yes, probably.

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#22393

On 2014-06-06, Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <bvcn92Fhk1U2@mid.individual.net> 
>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> .
>> 
>>> Even so, if you have no card reader, transferring from the camera works
>>> just fine.
>> 
>> True, but the original issue was not that it didn't work, but that it
>> was excruciatingly slow. So....
>
> It's iPhoto that slows transfer down!

Well, technically, it's both.

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#22399

Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2014-06-05, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has
>>> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why
>>> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of
>>> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the
>>> digital camera's memory?
>>
>> Why would you pull them directly off the camera instead of off the SD
>> card (or whatever cards).
>
> Why wouldn't you? If you don't have a card reader, transferring from the
> camera itself (with the card still in it) works just fine.

Using a card reader is far much faster than connecting /any/ camera 
directly to the computer - except those few having Firewire instead of 
USB. - Especially Sony, Fuji and the smaller Olympus compact cameras do 
have very slow transfer speeds. And it doesn't matter whether you use 
iPhoto, Lightroom, Aperture or whatever application to store.

Cheers, Erik Richard

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#22370

Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <JKudncwMbp9fZRLOnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>   Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>> Hello.
> 
>> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
>> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
>> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
>> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
>> digital camera's memory?
> 
> Why would you pull them directly off the camera instead of off the SD
> card (or whatever cards).

Well, not everyone has SD cards.  On the other hand, I don't use iPhoto to
import from my camera. I just connect it and move what I want on the
computer directly to an appropriate folder. Among other things, it only
takes a fraction of the time.

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#22334 — Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones...

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 04:57:37 UTC, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
> digital camera's memory?
> 
> Thank you in advance. :)

Did the camera come with Mac software? Try using it instead of 
iPhoto to import. My Canon camera's software remembers which photos 
have already been uploaded -- which is trivial, since it only has to
save the serial number of the last one -- and imports only the new 
ones.

Importing outside of iPhoto also provides an opportunity to 
Photoshop and rename the photos before importing to iPhoto. It's 
been my experience that the interface between iPhoto and Photoshop 
is error-prone. And I like having the file name and the iPhoto title
be the same.

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#22362 — Re: Taking a long time to import photo(graph)s especially only for new ones...

On 6/5/2014 6:03 PM PT, John Varela typed:
> Did the camera come with Mac software? Try using it instead of
> iPhoto to import. My Canon camera's software remembers which photos
> have already been uploaded -- which is trivial, since it only has to
> save the serial number of the last one -- and imports only the new
> ones.

Not sure. It's an old digital camera though. It probably doesn't work 
with the newer Mac OS X versions. :/
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#22368

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 6/5/2014 6:03 PM PT, John Varela typed:
>> Did the camera come with Mac software? Try using it instead of
>> iPhoto to import. My Canon camera's software remembers which photos
>> have already been uploaded -- which is trivial, since it only has to
>> save the serial number of the last one -- and imports only the new
>> ones.
> 
> Not sure. It's an old digital camera though. It probably doesn't work
> with the newer Mac OS X versions. :/

My camera is pre- memory card. I've been able to move from camera to
computer via drag and drop into a folder on my desktop since before OSX and
still can. Plug in camera cable. Open the list of fotos. Highlight the ones
I want to move. Drag them into the folder I want them in, possibly a newly-
created one.  Do something else for a few minutes if there were many fotos.
Eject camera connector. Edit fotos on computer as time and inclination
dictate.

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#22351

Ant:

> Hello.
> 
> iPhoto '11 takes a long time to import from a Sony digital camera has 
> thousands of photo(graphs). Most of them were already imported, but why 
> does it need to rescan all of them to import the new ones (e.g., 250 of 
> them)? Is the only way to skip is to remove these old ones from the 
> digital camera's memory?

I don't know what the camera is doing, or what iPhoto is doing, but
here's what you are doing wrong.

You are connecting the camera to your computer via a USB cable. Here's
the right way to upload photos to your computer.

1. Own more than one camera storage card. Three or four ought to be
sufficient if you are an amateur photographer.

2. When you're ready to transfer photos remove the card from your
camera and replace it with a fresh card. If the fresh card has photos
on it, format it. The place to back-up your photos is your two or more
back-up drives, not your memory card.

3. Insert the memory card that you want to read into your computer or
into an external card reader. The Sony MRW-EA7 external reader is
excellent.

4. If you're in a hurry because you're doing sports or a wedding, and
you don't have an assistant to do this for you, use Photo Mechanic
<http://www.camerabits.com/products/> for its transfer speed, then have
the photos automatically transfer to Lightroom 5 (having dumped iPhoto)
via a Lightroom "watched folder."

5. Remove the card from the computer or card reader. Be sure to
reformat it when you next insert it into your camera.

Now you're playing with the big boys.

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On 6/5/2014 8:46 PM PT, Davoud typed:
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> Now you're playing with the big boys.

Thanks for the tips! Yeah, my client is just an average camera user. I 
rarely use any cameras and always delete after copying JPEG image files. 
No fancy stuff.
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