Cutting photos from sd card
How do I cut photos from an sd card rather than copy and move them to an external drive?
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How do I cut photos from an sd card rather than copy and move them to an external drive?
Thanks Karina but neither of these documents provide an answer to my specific question....
I want to cut photos from the SD card so I can transfer the originals, not copies.
I can’t see how to do that....
Can anyone help please?
After you copy the image files, you can simply drag from the SD card folder to the trash and empty the trash.
However, personally after I copy the images from the card I put the card back in the camera and format it.
Hi there alimacali,
We understand you have a question about moving files on your MacBook Pro, and we'd like to share a resource that can help.
Take a look at it here: See and organize your files in the Finder on Mac
This page may also help: Use an SD or SDXC card with Mac
Cheers!
Thanks Allan
I assumed that copying photo files would degrade them hence the need to ‘cut’ them rather than copy. I have since learned that copying a photo file once will have no effect on the quality of the image.
Thank you for your helpful replies!
Alastair
alimacali wrote:
I assumed that copying photo files would degrade them hence the need to ‘cut’ them rather than copy. I have since learned that copying a photo file once will have no effect on the quality of the image.
Copying the file will not affect image quality. However, if you're using a lossy image format (like JPG), opening the file and re-saving it will cause in loss of quality, although arguably not really perceptible unless you do it very frequently to the same file.
I use Apple's Image Capture app that came as part of macOS to edit/cut unwanted pics from my DSLR's card. Quite easy to use. See:
Hi Allan
thanks for your reply...
I don’t want to import photos to my Mac. I want to cut them from an SD card and paste them into an external drive using my Mac...
Can Image Capture do that?
Sorry, I associated "cut" with deleting files that were not needed for the transfer.
Cutting photos from sd card