📷 This is a console-app I made because I take a lot of photos (and sometimes video too) and manually moving files off my camera’s memory-card can get a little tedious.
🚀 It’s very specific to my workflow, and probably won’t be something you want if you’re not me, but you can download the executable here.
🔌 It waits for a device to be inserted in drive D:\ (or E:\ or F:\ ), then lists the files, grouped according to the action it expects me (the user) to take on them.
🖼️ If there are .jpg files on the disk, I get the option to move them to my Desktop.
📹 If there are .mts files (video clips), I get the option to move them to my Desktop and rename them to their date created (my camera saves them with a simple serial 0000.mts, 0001.mts, ..., which I dislike).
🗃️ If there are files that my camera uses to manage its internal catalogue, I get the option to delete them; I also get the option to replace them with an empty catalogue so my camera doesn’t tell me photos are missing. The files for the empty catalogue comprise the DefaultDiskContents folder.
🗄️ If there are other files, I get the options to move, move and rename, or ignore them.
📂 Finally the program deletes any empty folders on the card.
💻 Files are moved to my Desktop because I use Lightroom to edit my photos and videos, and its import process will organize them into folders on my hard drive, but it won’t delete files from a memory-card. So I need to move my files off the card before I import them to Lightroom.
👨💻 Made by Duncan Ritchie using .NET Framework (C#) in Visual Studio, 2020 May 23.