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How to invoke the Adobe Bridge CC - Photo Downloader on any arbitrary folder

As you have seen in my post Digital photography workflow I use the photo downloader from Adobe bridge as the corner stone of my workflow.  Sometimes, I am in a rush and I need to take a copy of what is in the memory card and keep it somewhere for safekeeping until I have time to process it.  What I have to do then is once I am ready, copy the folder content that was stored for safekeeping into a new cleaned up memory card and start bridge to download the images. Here is a technique so that you do not need this copy back (which can be slow if you are copying 32 GB of images back onto a memory card). Let assume that you have copied the memory card content to a folder say h:\backup\memory card from houston trip what you need to do is to look into Windows Explorer for a drive letter not in use in your computer at the moment.  Lets say this is drive P: .  You type the following command at a command prompt: subst p: "h:\backup \memory card from houston trip" This will