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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 create a drive P: with the content of the original memory card.  Then you type the following long command line (for Adobe Bridge CC, not sure if older version work the same) where P: represent your newly created drive with the subst command above:

"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CC (64 Bit)\photodownloader\Photodownloader.exe" module=photodownloader params mode=direct devType=volume priDevId="P:"

And voila! You should then see the familiar Adobe Bridge CC - Photo Downloader window.  That's all folks.

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