Make a second copy on import to external drive and copy the file by date

In earlier versions I made second copies of files imported to an external hard drive.  The files would import and automatically create a capture date file folder in the same manner as importing by date to the primary internal drive.  At some point this feature seems to have gone away and now I get a folder on the external drive:  p:\\pictures\2014\Imported on Tuesday, April 22, 2014.  What I would like is:  p:\\pictures\2014\2014-04-22 
Is there anyway to force this to happen?  I really hate having to manually move lots of files and create folders to keep the system I have had for years that organizes my files by date of capture on both the primary and backup drives.

Short answer: No. That is the way it is.
Why? The Make Second Copy during Import is designed to be a backup of your memory card processes-not a back up of your files as you store them on disk. It is intended to be a transient copy that allows you an immediate backup until such time as a File System Level backup can be performed, allowing you to have two copies so that you can reformat your memory cards.
I agree it would be nice if the folder storage strategy was duplicated for the backup as it is created for the import but that is not something you can set the program to do currently.  I remember it behaving differently versions ago but do not recall exactly how it used to work.

Similar Messages

  • I need to erase my hard drive and start anew, will time Machine(external drive) and all the discs I got with my computer be enough to restart things

    I need to erase my hard drive and start anew, will time Machine(external drive) and all the discs I got with my computer be enough to restart things.  And secondly does RAM memory cards go bad.  Here's the info on my IMac:
    Model Name:          iMac
      Model Identifier:          iMac6,1
      Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
      Processor Speed:          2.16 GHz
      Number Of Processors:          1
      Total Number Of Cores:          2
      L2 Cache:          4 MB
      Memory:          3 GB
      Bus Speed:          667 MHz
      Boot ROM Version:          IM61.0093.B07
      SMC Version (system):          1.10f2

    I need to erase my hard drive and start anew
    Why do you feel you need to do this? That is such a 'Windows thing' to do!
    And secondly does RAM memory cards go bad
    Very rarely, but nothing in life is guaranteed (except death and taxes)! If you purchased RAM from a reputable source like Crucial or OWC it will carry a lifetime warranty.

  • How can I download my iMac iTunes library to an external drive and reload the library to iTunes on a PC?

    How can I download my iMac iTunes library to an external drive and reload the library to iTunes on a PC?

    Hi Niel.  Can you be move specific for those of us not tech savy?   1 - Can you provide steps to back up the library?  2 - How do you organize the library?  3 - When you move the entire iTunes folder, does it include iTunes paid for music along with downloaded music from CDs?  Thanks

  • Is it possible to have your music and videos saved on different external drives and use the same iTunes library?

    Is it possible to have your music and videos saved on different external drives and use the same iTunes library?
    I am running out of space on my external hard drive and would like to split the movies and music between two external drives while using the same iTunes library is this possible.
    My library is stored on the external drive all of my music etc is stored.

    Yes.

  • When I check my boot SSD drive using Disk Utility under Mavericks, I often get "Incorrect number of extended attributes" errors.  But if I boot off an external drive and check the same SSD, no errors are reported.  Is this a bug in Mavericks?

    When I check my boot SSD drive using Disk Utility under Mavericks, I often get "Incorrect number of extended attributes" errors.  But if I boot off an external drive and check the same SSD, no errors are reported. 
    This happens not just with the SSD in my Mac Mini, but with another SSD in my MacBook (both now running Mavericks).  So far as I know, all of the kit I am using is in good order (despite the file corruption reports).  So I am beginning to wonder if it could be due to a bug in Mavericks?  Both SSD drives have been formatted to MacOS Extended (journaled) format.  Should I have used a different format, I wonder?
    Has anyone else encountered this issue?
    Does anyone have a solution?
    Or an explanation that might help my investigation of the issue?
    Thanks guys,

    I understand that the Corsair Force 3 is not one of the SSD drives that are supported on Apple Macs. 
    I did try downloading and using Trim Enabler, but the error message came up both when it was off and when it was on.
    I understand that not everyone thinks Trim Enabler is a good program, though there is a new version out now, so I may give it another try.

  • When copying Itunes to an external drive, how do I get iTunes to feed from the file on the external drive and not the computer/

    I've already copied my iTunes folder onto my external hardrive. I'm having problems getting iTunes to pull the information from the external hardrive and not the computer's internal one, though. Any suggestions on how to get it to work?

    iTunes works off of an ITL file in the iTunes folder
    instead of dragging the folder out of the external hardrive and onto the desktop just do this
    -hold shift key and double click iTunes to open it up
    -you will get a prompt asking to create a new library or choose library, click choose library
    -an explorer window will open up and you are going to navigate to the external hard drive and open the iTunes folder
    -in the iTunes folder you are going to find a file that doesn't look like a folder but a page with a corner folded on it that is your iTunes library file
    -double click the iTunes library file and your library will appear and you are good to go
    WARNING: this is a good method for making sure your music doesn't take all of your computer's storage but keep in mind if you remove the external hard drive from the computer you may have issues accessing the library example next to the song titles

  • I tried to copy my iPhoto library to a second external drive and now the pgm, running on an iBook with 10.5.8 does not open the original library on launching?

    Hi Guys, I copied my iPhoto library to a second external disk. Now my version of iPhoto (5.0.4) does not display the original library on the orignal external drive. I have reinstalled the iPhoto and it seems to make 2 attempts to find the library but fails. The iPhoto menu bar is available but does not function. The screen is blank. Any help appreciated,
    Gethin

    Are you indicating that you don't get this window when you hold down the Option key while launching iPhoto?
    What do you mean by "nothing happens".  What library opens when you launch iPhoto normally?
    OT

  • Single User Mode - mount external drive and copy user files to there

    I have an iBook G4 running (I think) Tiger (although it may be Panther). AHT reports a bad HD and it will not boot from that drive. Mounting it via Target Disk to another Mac won't permit me to even see beyond the root directory; just a spinning sunburst at the bottom of the Finder window.
    If I boot into single-user mode, I can "ls" and "cd" to see the files and folders in the home folder. Assuming the HD is named "Macintosh HD" and I have a USB-connected hard drive named "Backup", what are the commands I need to use in single-user mode in order to mount "Backup" and copy the user's home folder (there's only one on this drive) over to "Backup"?
    As I indicated above, I'm not absolutely sure whether this iBook is running Panther or Tiger.
    Thanks in advance for any assistance!

    I'm in the middle of copying things.
    I did a chmod -R ug+w (IIRC) to the 300GB volume and this made it writable.
    I then CD'd to the Pictures folder on the Macintosh HD.
    I then did a cp *.jpg /Volumes/300GB/ and found that it managed to copy all of the jpegs that were sitting loose in the Pictures folder. Some of the photos were corrupted but I expected this as the drive is reported to have a hardware issue by AHT.
    I'm now in the process of copying the iPhoto Library using the cp -r command. Some files are being reported as bad and can't be copied but, again, I'm expecting this.
    Whatever I can get from this drive will be a bonus. I'll mention that I used Drive Genius to duplicate the HD to a disk image and, while this was done successfully, it resulted in a "no filesystem" error when I attempted to mount it. However, I -did- ask for it to be mounted anyway and then used DiskWarrior on it (even though it didn't appear in the Finder). It took a few hours for DiskWarrior to come up with a "preview" of the disk (as the filesystem was thoroughly hosed). The User folder was nowhere to be found and every file that was displayed was corrupt. That's why I'm trying this "out of the GUI" process.
    I'll thank everyone who made suggestions; they all pointed me in the proper direction.

  • How do I move my library to an external drive and delete the original on my local hd

    i have final cut x and yosemite. im running out of space on my hard drive on my mac book pro. i would like to copy all my old libraries to an external storage space and then delete the library from my local hard drive. im nervous to do it incase i lose the files. what is the best way to do this? thank you in advance

    If the libraries contain all the media - which is the default - then all you have to do is drag them to the external drive using the Finder.
    In any case, start by dragging a library to the external.
    Now open that library in FCP X, select it under "Libraries" and open the Inspector - you should see something like the picture below.
    Most likely, for Media, the location is "In Library", which means that most or all content should be inside the library. To make sure, click "Consolidate". This will copy anything that may have been stored outside the library, so that the library is completely self-contained.
    You can now safely delete the copy of the library from the internal drive.
    Tip: one of the things that uses most space is transcoded media - especially optimized media. You can safely delete that by going to File->Delete Generated Library Media.

  • HT1364 I have moved my library to an external hard drive and changed the location of the iTunes media folder in Preferences, but every time I close and re-open iTunes, I have to do it all over again.  How can I make the iTunes media folder change permanen

    I have moved my library to an external hard drive and changed the location of the iTunes media folder in Preferences, but every time I close and re-open iTunes, I have to do it all over again.  How can I make the iTunes media folder change permanent?  I have an older machine with Windows XP.

    I don't believe mounting the hard drive should be necessary, unless you have several external drives and want your computer to recognise them as folders, rather than drives. I've never had to mount a hard drive, ever. If you don't know how to do it, then it shouldn't be necessary now.
    Try this:
    Prepare iTunes so that it can see the external drive.
    Make a note of which drive-letter the external drive has been allocated. (Look in Windows Exploer)
    Look at the file location for a song. Make sure it plays (and therefore that iTunes has found it). Highlight it and select File/Get Info/Summary>Where: and make a note of the drive letter for that song.
    Close and shut down the computer.
    The next time you turn the computer on again, connect the external drive
    Before you start iTunes - check the external drive in Windows Explorer. Is it ready, does it have the same drive-letter that it had last time? Can you go into the drive and see the files on it?
    Once you can, start iTunes. (If the drive lettter has changed, you need to work out why before going any further.)
    If iTunes fails to find your external drive, you need to check where iTunes is looking for your Library.
    Select the same song you checked before (presumably iTunes can no longer find it). Follow the procedure for locating it. You should be able to see where iTunes thinks the file is. It's the drive that counts. Which drive letter is iTunes looking at? Is it the same one that it was previously (which should also be the same one that the drive has now).
    What happens, which step do you have problems with?
    Message was edited by: the fiend

  • ITunes Media on external drive and moved to new PC laptop

    Environment: Dell PC laptop, Window 7 32-bit, iTunes 12.1.1.4
    I have all of my iTunes Media on an external hard-disk drive. I want to keep it on that drive. I have a new laptop and have connected the external drive to it. I have installed iTunes on the new laptop and in Advanced Preferences I have changed the iTunes Media folder location to E:\iTunes and I have checked the box "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized." I have also checked the box "Copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library."
    When I open iTunes, the software does not seem to recognize the content in E:\iTunes. It does not recognize that I have already downloaded most of my purchased content (everything previously downloaded still has the little cloud icon in the bottom right corner) and it won't play anything I've already downloaded. Also, music that I have previously imported from CD's is not accessible.
    I have read through some of the other support discussions and have seen situations similar to mine, but not exactly like mine. I would copy the file "iTunes Library.itl" from the old computer, but I have one concern: on the old laptop the external drive was Drive G: and on the new laptop it is Drive E:
    I tried File --> Library --> Consolidate Files, but nothing happened.
    I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
    Regards,
    Brandon

    Copy the iTunes Library.itl file from the old computer.  iTunes can handle a change in drive letters as long as the relative paths from the database to the media is the same - typically where you have an iTunes folder (preferably in the root of the external drive) that contains both the iTunes Library.itl file and the iTunes Media folder, as follows:
    See turingtest2's user tip on Make a split library portable for steps that may be necessary to bring your library into this layout.
    Then, hold down SHIFT as you start iTunes, and when you see this prompt:
    click on Choose Library..., navigate to the iTunes folder on your external drive, and select the iTunes Library.itl file.
    Note also that the iTunes Media folder location setting in Edit > Preferences > Advanced does not provide iTunes information about the location of your library (that info is all within the database file).  This setting is used, in conjunction with the Keep iTunes Media folder organized setting, to determine where iTunes stores new media when you add it to your library.
    Once everything's sorted out, use a second external drive to create and maintain a backup of your library.

  • Can I use Time Machine to backup to partition on external drive and a Time Capsule?

    Trying to plan in advance...
    I was wondering if I can (with a laptop) use Time Machine for both:
    1. Creating Time Machine backups on a partiion of an external drive. My plan was going to create  2 partitions: one to be used for Time Machine backups of another external hard drive (that holds all of my media) and then the other partition was going to be a bootable clone of my internal drive (totally separate from Time Machine)
    and
    2. Also use Time Machine for my Time Capsule, to create Time Machine backups of my internal drive.
    Is this possible? I had heard that you can't use TM to make backups to a partition on an external drive, AND use it for another drive (like Time Capsule) at the same time. But I would think that this should be possible-
    Thanks everyone-

    Yes you can, and if you are using Mountain Lion it's easy.
    If you are using Snow Leopard (as in your profile - this is the Mountain Lion forum), you have to manually select the backup volume each time. Tedious, but possible.
    Read Apple Support Communities contributor Pondini's FAQ on that subject: "Rotating" Time Machine backup disks

  • I have my iphoto library on an external drive, but it filled up.  Can I have another library in another external drive and use them both?

    I have old pictures in my external drive that I filled up.  I would like to make another iphoto library in a new external drive and have this one for new pictures.  Can I do that? And how will I be able to see my old pictures on my older external drive? My iphoto is 9.5.1.

    Yes.  Another way to switch between libraries is with this menu in iPhoto:

  • I tried to open a 2 year old movie (3.2GB) through iDVD today from an external drive and now I cannot get the color wheel to stop spinning. I tried restarting, it allows me to login and then gets to the background screen and spins again. Any ideas?

    I tried ti open a 2 year old movie (3.2 GB) through iDvD today from an external drive and got the spinning color wheel. I restarted the computer to see if it would stop and it let's me login but then the color wheel continues to spin. Any ideas?

    After admittedly only a quick read the one thing you don't say is how you are trying to make this move.  Most people with moving library issues do it the wrong way.  Plenty of web sites tell you how to do it the wrong way.
    If the iTunes application is started before the drive with the library is fully mounted and awake iTunes will revert back to the internal drive.

  • Moving music to external drive and combining multiple itunes accounts to 1

    Some how I have a couple of different itunes accounts. I had itunes before I got an iphone and bought some music that i listened to on my mac. Then i got an ipod and bought music. Then got an iphone and bought more stuff. And then my new iPhone 4. But the music is all on different "accounts" sort of. When I open my itunes I have under "store"
    Purchased
    Purchased on Susan's iphone
    Purchased on Susan's iphone
    But I can't combine them all together on my current iphone 4, yet I bought all those audio books and music!
    I asked at the Apple store and they said move all the music to an external drive then plug in the phone and when it asks if I want to do something or other (sheesh I can't remember it all) say yes and it will make one account, delete some of the music, then move the music that is on the drive into that account.
    So I have an external hard drive. I have itunes open. I don't want to delete anything until i'm sure I'm going to have it all on the external drive. And i have no idea what to do next. I thought i could just make a folder on the external drive and drag the music there but thats not working, it won't drag. And I have audio books that i bought but can only listen to on the computer it seems i can't move them to the iphone! What a mess.
    Can someone help!
    Susan

    I wrote this a bit prematurely. When I got around to syncing my ipod again that contained the games, they reappeared in itunes. Perhaps this will help someone else.

Maybe you are looking for

  • How to open and edit a DVD?

    I have two DVDs of a family event sent by two different people. DVDs made on domestic video recorders. I want to take out some stretches and edit the remaining pieces together. Could someone please take me by the hand and gently lead me through the p

  • How to implement a static field with more then one value?

    Hello! I'm a novice at swing programming. Please help me to implement a static list like this: Field_1: Value; Field_2: Value_1;               Value_2;               Value_3; Field_3: Value; Field_4: Value; Values for each field can be added dynamicl

  • I want to set up a collaborative work room for my company, what do I need to do so?

    I would like to set up a collaborative work room in our company using Apple, what do I need to acomplish such thing: server, ipads, ipods, iphones, smartboard, touchboard, wireless net, certificate logins, vpn, whoever can help me with a few lines fo

  • Best way to handle music?

    I am a high school yearbook adviser creating a high school yearbook dvd supplement. The dvd includes many things, video, photos, etc. This question relates to audio. I have a "page" for a band. They have several tracks I'd like to include and I'm try

  • What is the best way to transfer iTunes from iBook G4 to new MacBook Pro?

    What is the best way to transfer iTunes from iBook G4 to new MacBook Pro?