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.
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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