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Hey guy's. I have used the X-Pro 2 for two days now and I am trying to figure out why it is taking so long to copy the files from my fast SD card that I use with my X-T1 to my computer. I know the files are a little bigger but what used to take 2 mins now is taking 20 mins. I have a USB 3.0 reader using an iMac. Any Ideas or is anyone seeing the same thing?

Thanks, Dom
 
Raw or jpegs? Are you importing to Lightroom or similar software?
 
El Chubasco said:
Raw or jpegs? Are you importing to Lightroom or similar software?
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Sorry, I should have said I was shooting RAW. I always just copy them from the card to a folder on my computer before I import them to Lightroom. Thanks for responding. Like I said the only thing I do different is use the X-Pro2.
 
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Are you using the same SD card that you used previously? Different cards have different read/write ratings.
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Yes, it is a Lexar Pro 1000x SDXC II (3) card. The only thing I can think of is that I am using the Uncompressed with is 50 MB per file compared to the Lossless which is smaller.
 
something is not right here. I copy my XP2 files to a file on my desktop also. It takes a BIT longer to copy these files than the files from other cameras but not a lot. I just plug the card into the slot on the side of my Mac
 
djrocks66 said:
Hey guy's. I have used the X-Pro 2 for two days now and I am trying to figure out why it is taking so long to copy the files from my fast SD card that I use with my X-T1 to my computer. I know the files are a little bigger but what used to take 2 mins now is taking 20 mins. I have a USB 3.0 reader using an iMac. Any Ideas or is anyone seeing the same thing?

Thanks, Dom
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2 vs 20 minutes is a big jump - but the XP2 RAW files are quite big... around 16MB bigger than X-T1 (48+ vs 32+).

Using a UHS-II card reader? I'll assume you are, but that would be one bottle neck if you weren't.

How many pictures are you transferring? That of course would be a pretty big variable to note - or are you saying 20 minutes for a single image?

The rest would be around harddrive speed, whether or not your USB drivers are up to date, other things writing to the HD during the import, etc.

There are a lot of variable involved: Card speed, number and size of files, HD Speed, USB speed and/or bottlenecks (a lot of things using the USB Bus), card reader type, and sometimes it can be something finicky like the USB driver (windows 10 did this to me with certain USB ports: 'Your device could operate faster if you plugged into a 3.0 port' etc - despite being plugged in to a USB 3.0 port). I had to upgrade drivers to improve things when I noticed a little slowness.

You could do a control of maybe 10-20 pics and try to isolate the timing, and repeat copies to see what else spikes while you copy (in case any anti-virus or other software spins up - I doubt it, but like to consider everything, since I suspect most AV programs likely won't recognize what a RAF file is).

Edit: Re-read the original post. If you think the files coming form the xP2 might somehow be suspect - take 500MB of pics with same card on X-t1 and transfer and time, then take 500MB with the xpro2 and do the same. Results should match pretty closely.

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tsg said:
2 vs 20 minutes is a big jump - but the XP2 RAW files are quite big... around 16MB bigger than X-T1 (48+ vs 32+).

Using a UHS-II card reader? I'll assume you are, but that would be one bottle neck if you weren't.

How many pictures are you transferring? That of course would be a pretty big variable to note - or are you saying 20 minutes for a single image?

The rest would be around harddrive speed, whether or not your USB drivers are up to date, other things writing to the HD during the import, etc.

There are a lot of variable involved: Card speed, number and size of files, HD Speed, USB speed and/or bottlenecks (a lot of things using the USB Bus), card reader type, and sometimes it can be something finicky like the USB driver (windows 10 did this to me with certain USB ports: 'Your device could operate faster if you plugged into a 3.0 port' etc - despite being plugged in to a USB 3.0 port). I had to upgrade drivers to improve things when I noticed a little slowness.

You could do a control of maybe 10-20 pics and try to isolate the timing, and repeat copies to see what else spikes while you copy (in case any anti-virus or other software spins up - I doubt it, but like to consider everything, since I suspect most AV programs likely won't recognize what a RAF file is).

Edit: Re-read the original post. If you think the files coming form the xP2 might somehow be suspect - take 500MB of pics with same card on X-t1 and transfer and time, then take 500MB with the xpro2 and do the same. Results should match pretty closely.
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djrocks66 said:
tsg said:
2 vs 20 minutes is a big jump - but the XP2 RAW files are quite big... around 16MB bigger than X-T1 (48+ vs 32+).

Using a UHS-II card reader? I'll assume you are, but that would be one bottle neck if you weren't.

How many pictures are you transferring? That of course would be a pretty big variable to note - or are you saying 20 minutes for a single image?

The rest would be around harddrive speed, whether or not your USB drivers are up to date, other things writing to the HD during the import, etc.

There are a lot of variable involved: Card speed, number and size of files, HD Speed, USB speed and/or bottlenecks (a lot of things using the USB Bus), card reader type, and sometimes it can be something finicky like the USB driver (windows 10 did this to me with certain USB ports: 'Your device could operate faster if you plugged into a 3.0 port' etc - despite being plugged in to a USB 3.0 port). I had to upgrade drivers to improve things when I noticed a little slowness.

You could do a control of maybe 10-20 pics and try to isolate the timing, and repeat copies to see what else spikes while you copy (in case any anti-virus or other software spins up - I doubt it, but like to consider everything, since I suspect most AV programs likely won't recognize what a RAF file is).

Edit: Re-read the original post. If you think the files coming form the xP2 might somehow be suspect - take 500MB of pics with same card on X-t1 and transfer and time, then take 500MB with the xpro2 and do the same. Results should match pretty closely.
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For what it's worth - Google searching around slow file copying with El Capitan yields an awful lot of results. You could be onto something by suspecting the OS... Especially if you updated this recently. Seems to be a lot of talk about slow speeds, finder issues, and preview generation.

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djrocks66 said:
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I an going to try the last thing you said here. I was wondering if it could be that I am using a Beta version of OS X El Capitan. I upgraded by accident the other day. Thats the only difference besides using the X-T1. I will try a test though.
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If you just upgraded, why are you on a beta version? The current release is at 10.11.4, or four updates since release of El Capitan. Run your updates. The beta had file copy issues.

Rich
 
tsg said:
For what it's worth - Google searching around slow file copying with El Capitan yields an awful lot of results. You could be onto something by suspecting the OS...
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That's what I wonder. I've had issues with Aperture loading from my card reader for various camera brands. After upgrading to El Capitan on my 2008 MBP I found it would not load all images and at times they'd be out of order. To get around that, I had to copy images to my desktop then select it to Aperture Import and all images would show. Recently I have found I can now again import directly from card reader to Aperture with no problems, all images are present. I did nothing to correct this and can only assume that there may have been some fixes in Apple's updates. Go figure.
tsg said:
Especially if you updated this recently. Seems to be a lot of talk about slow speeds, finder issues, and preview generation.

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http://brooklynvegan.com/
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Ditto to that. I would not even know how to find the beta of El Capitan. It is not really available.

Additionally, when you upgrade to a new type of card you need to upgrade the reader as well to get the speed advantage for transferring data to your computer.

It is possible that El Capitan could overtax a really old Mac and that could be the slow down.
 
dark13star said:
djrocks66 said:
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I an going to try the last thing you said here. I was wondering if it could be that I am using a Beta version of OS X El Capitan. I upgraded by accident the other day. Thats the only difference besides using the X-T1. I will try a test though.
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If you just upgraded, why are you on a beta version? The current release is at 10.11.4, or four updates since release of El Capitan. Run your updates. The beta had file copy issues.

Rich
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Thanks for all your comments!

I think I may have figured it out. If I copy files to the memory card they copy fast but from the card to the iMac they copy extremely slow. I tried the same thing with the X-T1 files and they too were slow. It may be because I only have 900gb left of space on my main hard drive out of 3TB. I tried copying files to my other iMac and it copied fast. Looks like I started running low on space the same time I got the X-Pro2 so I thought it was the problem. :) I just did a backup and I am going to move some files over to another drive and try again. :)

Thanks again, Dom
 
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