Comments on: Fastest Way to Get Pictures from your Camera Card to your Mac

By: Brett Peters

Brett Peters — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:23:34 +0000

The litmus test for me is handing my computer over to my wife and seeing if she can find things. iPhoto usually fails that test, and she resorts to finding pictures on Flickr.

Unfortunately, I could say that about a lot of Apple’s stuff of late.

We could all write for a blog called "2007: The Good Old Days of Apple".

By: Joe Maller

Joe Maller — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:45:22 +0000

I used to have something sort of like this, but I kind of classify photos into the bucket of things I don’t want to have to think about. I love the idea of iPhoto, but it doesn’t seem to be working all that well these days. Unfortunately, I could say that about a lot of Apple’s stuff of late.

By: Brett Peters

Brett Peters — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:07:02 +0000

Looks like this still works. Sweet!

By: Brett Peters

Brett Peters — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:14:34 +0000

We HAVE to stop thinking so alike.

Here's my script, which just slurps the card contents into two separate places (archive | edit), wipes the card, and then ejects it.

I had hooked this up to a Folder Action to trigger it whenever the card was inserted in Tiger. I should get that running again.

Interestingly, doing it this way highlights two problems: USB 2.0 is just slow, and the iPhoto import is slow even off the hard drive. Putting them together is double the trouble.