Canon fcp plugin question

Hi everyone,
I recently installed the canon plug-in to allow me to directly ingest the footage I shoot with my 7d. However it won't work so far. Basically I have a lot of footage backed up on a hard drive from a weekend shoot, and the footage hasn't been modified in any way, other than it was pulled off the CF cards and dropped onto hard drives.
so it looks like that process made it so that the plug in won't recognize those folders of movies as compatible for the log and transfer. I read further on the site and it seems like their instructions require you to be transferring directly from the cards. that process doesnt really work for me since most of my shoots require me to clear the cards during the day, and the laptop i have used this for doesn't have fcp so i couldn't really do that anyways.
is there a work around here? or if i pull everything off cards to hd's do i just have to do the compressor transcoding to get these to work? if anyone has any experience with this process let me know. thanks
austin

so judging by what i've read, log and transfer can't read the files properly once you've removed them from the cards, and you have a new file where the movs and the thm's are separated. this makes sense to me, you can't pull ex-1 stuff off and have it work either, i'm following. i've read a little about making a disk image of the folder and that it makes it work properly. can anyone explain this to me? i've tried to navigate the disk utility and cant figure it out. any links maybe?

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