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Copy Files from SD Card to NAS - One Solution

RAC

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This is a very common task for photographers and, because I seldom fire up my computer these days, I have been looking for a way to do this with the iPad. I have finally found a convenient way to do it.

I have a Western Digital NAS (MWBE) which has a USB port and has an option to expose the embedded Linux shell.

I plug the SD card into a mini SD card reader and plug that in the USB port on the NAS.

I use iSSH to establish a shell session with the NAS on the iPad and copy the files from the SD card to a destination directory. I like to copy jpg and raw (cr2) files to separate subdirectories so that adds a few extra steps.

To save typing (and typos :)), I use a Numbers spreadsheet to construct the necessary Linux commands. It is a simple matter to copy them from Numbers and paste them into iSSH. I could use the vi editor on the NAS to create a script but I think that copy/paste from Numbers is actually easier.

I thought that other photographers might be interested.

This is a typical sequence of commands (copied from Numbers):-

mkdir /DataVolume/Download/Photos/20110426_Test
mkdir /DataVolume/Download/Photos/20110426_Test/jpg
mkdir /DataVolume/Download/Photos/20110426_Test/raw
cp /shares/usb1-1share1/dcim/102canon/*.jpg /DataVolume/Download/Photos/20110426_Test/jpg
cp /shares/usb1-1share1/dcim/102canon/*.cr2 /DataVolume/Download/Photos/20110426_Test/raw
 

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