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Steve1812
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January 17, 2021
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Adobe Photodownloader is slow

  • January 17, 2021
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Hi,

In the last few cersions of Bridge - I have the latest on my Mac, Photodownloader open as it should and downloads images from my sd card (on desktop)to eventually open images in Bridge. All as expected.

Here's the but: I tool 30 RAW images on my SD card and here is what happened.

Time for downloader to copy from SD card on desktop to new folder on desktop abpout 30 seconds.

Time to just drag and drop from SD on desktop  to folder on desktop about 10 seconds.

Time for "Import from Device" from SD card on desktop to new folder on desktop 10 seconds.

SD card read by reader and appears on desktop every time.

RAW files averaged 30meg each.

 

Any thoughts - memory says this used not to be the case.

 

Thank you, Steve1812

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    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 17, 2021

    HI Steve,

     

    I expect the PhotoDownloader to take more time to ingest the images than simply copying in the Finder becuase it's doing more things. Even if you are not adding extra metadata (like copyright, info about you (the photographer), etc.) it does add a bit of time regardless, and if you convert to DNG (like I do), that also adds time.

     

    Beyond that I cannot say simply because whenever I'm ingesting images, I just do not pay attention to it. After shooting images all day when I get to my computer and start the ingesting, I'll be catching up on email, headlines, etc. 

     

    I can say that Adobe has not done much of anything with PhotoDownloader at all in many many years so I don't think there's been any recent change. They probably have done work on converting it from 32bit to 64 bit but that should not have slowed anything down.

     

    Can't tell you much more, sorry.

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    Steve1812Author
    Participant
    January 18, 2021
    Hello Gary,

    And thank you for the very quick reply.

    I understand what you say and it does make sense.
    That said, my memory of Downloader is that it is getting slower, as the years go by.
    Yes, RAW image sizes have increased but slower is what it seems.

    I will start to drag and drop to my new folder as a matter of course.
    I, under normal circumstances, shoot a lot of sport action and music gigs - just for fun.
    So when I get home usually have over 150 RAWs to sort.

    That said, thanks again for the reply.

    Steve1812
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