Importing to Bridge on Mac from SD Card

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January 17, 2022
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I’m using Bridge 12.0.1.246 and upgraded my Mac to OS 12.1. When downloading from an SD card I do not delete files until the card is near full for back-up. Until the OS upgrade thumbnails in the download dialogue box showed most recent images first. It now shows them last and I have to wait until all thumbnails are downloaded before selecting the latest images. This can take some time on a large capacity SD card. Is there any way to reverse the order the thumbnails are downloaded?

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Lumigraphics

Legend

Just use the Finder and a card reader. Bridge Photo Downloader is a buggy mess.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Martin,

That's a dangerous use of Cards. It is much safer to download that day's shoot, than, backup the files on your computer to a 2nd (and possibly third) drive. Then reformat the card in the camera.

At a minimum, if you're trying to fill the card, you are putting yourself into a potential situation where you'll be in the middle of a shoot and suddenly you're out of room for more images on that card.

Meanwhile, as you've pointed out, you're wasting your time waiting for all of the images to be cached.

Can you teach me why this is your process? What advantages does it provide to you? Maybe I'm missing something.

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martinh23138660Author

Participant

Hi Gary,

Thanks for your reply.

Everything is backed up on an external drive through Time Machine so I’m confident I have a reasonably secure system. I never saw the point of deleting the originals on the SD card until I needed to. I always carry a spare card as I have had a failure.

What I couldn’t understand was why the the order of the thumbnails changed from newest first to oldest. If the order cannot be changed and I have to delete the original files to save time then I can.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Martin,

This is one of those changes I'd never have come across because (as I pointed out), I never have more than one day's shoot on my cards. It is an interesting change as to why they would do that. I do not know.

Time Machine is fantastic and it certainly does a great job. But, that implies that your images are on your computer. At some point, the number of images you have on your computer will grow to a point where they have to reside on a separate external drive. If I may, let me provide some thoughts for the future. However, I'm sure you know this axiom: "There are two kinds of hard drive users. Those who've had a hard drive crash and those who've not had a hard drive crash YET."

Over the years I've had several hard drives crash and yes I've lost stuff. Here's what I now do:

I have a 4 TB drive that holds all of my images and many documents. I have a 2nd 4TB drive that I use to back up my first drive. I manually do this at least once a week or more often if I've done a lot of work.

I have a 3rd 4TB drive I use for Apple's Time Machine.

I also use a cloud service in case the house burns down. Am I paranoid? No, just a realist. In a worst-case scenario, I would not lose much more than time.

[Note: the 4TB is entirely based on what I need. Your needs may demand more or less hard drive space. Whatever you think you need, double it. Oh, the backup drives do not need to be SSDs or anything fancy or fast, just reliable. Do not use portable drives as they are not as robust as desktop drives. And be aware that your first backup will take a long time. Also, look for backup software that can update your data as opposed to replacing your data. If you're on a Mac I can strongly recommend ChronoSync. If you're on a PC, I'm sure someone can make recommendations.]

Again, these are just some thoughts, YMMV.

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