MacBook - how to import from SC card & import to LR?

Seedeich · Aug 20, 2016

I just got my first Mac, a Macbook Pro.

Coming from Windows I need some help.

When importing RAW files from a SD card, the Photo app opens, I select the files and import.

When trying to import the files into Lightroom I can’t find them. I can’t find them in Finder either. As far as I’ve found out researching the net this is “normal” behavior. But completely unusable.

What I want to do is create a folder and name it with the date in a picture library.

Open the SD card and copy the images into the folder.

Open Lightroom’s Import option, find that folder and import the images to LR.

I don’t want to auto import the images into Photo, I don’t want them to be hidden in Finder and I don’t want them to be in iCloud.

Any help is much appreciated.

PS. I am pretty experienced with Windows and Lightroom, but Mac is new territory for me.

Seedeich · Aug 23, 2016

noirdesir said:
There are exist keyboard shortcuts in the Finder for three main folders, which I use quite frequently:

cmd-shift H opens the home folder

cmd-shift D opens the Desktop folder

cmd-shift A opens the system-level Applications folder

Great - It will take me some time to learn the shortcuts.

noirdesir said:
noirdesir said:

I haven’t unchecked anything in Photos.

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Unchecking that box at the top left (when a memory card is connected) saves you from the dialogue box (or Photos itself) coming up every time you insert a card.

I unchecked for a card called NO NAME and it doesn’t open again.
But a card named LUMIX opened Photos again. Same with a card named NIKON1 V1.

After unchecking for those two names, cards with that name don’t open Photos again. It seems dependent on how a camera names a card when formatting.

noirdesir said:
noirdesir said:

But I have fished the System Photo Library out of the trash. It’s almost 500 Mb - how can I empty that file? I can’t see any images in Photos, that I can delete.

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Simply open the library, select all images and delete them. Then go to Albums (in the top toolbar), open the 'Recently Deleted' album (a sort of internal trash) and hit the Delete All button at the top right. Photos will remove deleted images after about 30 days on its own, but if you want to reclaim the space right away, that is the procedure to do so.

Thanks, it worked. Now it’s only 9.5 Mb.

Paul Pasco · Aug 24, 2016

Seedeich said:
nopix said:

Look at Lyn as an image viewer similar to Faststone.

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Thanks for that tip. Saw that before here on DPR, possibly in a post from you.

Have installed Lyn - looks good so far.

Seedeich · Aug 25, 2016

Hi Paul,

I needed a new and faster laptop to cope with the increasing size of image files. 10 or 12 MP was ok but 20 MP took too long to process in NIK software.
Thought I would get another PC, but when I saw my colleagues who already had Win10 at work… then I read the thread in the N1 forum… it was time to change system.

Lyn works quite well. I wonder if there is a way to display the date when the image was taken in the overview. Now it displays the date when the image was processed.
I usually just export images from LR into an Export folder and decide later where to store them. Actually I have a couple of Export folders, one for normal large size and a couple for smaller sizes for sharing or special purposes. No way do I want any software to dictate where to put the images or auto-upload to clouds.

Regards,
Seedeich

Najinsky · Aug 29, 2016

1. Go into the Applications folder, locate Photos.app, hit delete.

2. Empty system trash.

3. Repeat after upgrading the OS.

Seedeich · Aug 29, 2016

Najinsky said:
1. Go into the Applications folder, locate Photos.app, hit delete.

2. Empty system trash.

3. Repeat after upgrading the OS.

noirdesir · Aug 29, 2016

Najinsky said:
1. Go into the Applications folder, locate Photos.app, hit delete.

2. Empty system trash.

3. Repeat after upgrading the OS.

I once had the same silly reaction in regard to Launchpad. Generally, however I don't think deleting all bundled applications one isn't using to be a good tactic (unless you are desperate for disk space).

noirdesir · Aug 29, 2016

Seedeich said:
Najinsky said:

1. Go into the Applications folder, locate Photos.app, hit delete.

2. Empty system trash.

3. Repeat after upgrading the OS.

--
Andy
Survive the apocalypse with dignity. Eat your neighbours with a fork, and use a napkin.

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Most sensible advice ever!

I'd rather call the most childish advice. The most sensible advice is the one I gave in my first response to your OP. That is to simply uncheck the checkbox that says 'Open Photos for this device' or, if that doesn't work because you both reformat your memory cards in-camera and your camera model during this defeats the mechanism behind the checkbox solution, to execute the following Terminal command:

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool true

Seedeich said:
(except when I try - " “Photos.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X.")

But I guess you want to do it anyway. You might be able to do so via the Terminal (probably "sudo rm -iR /Applications/Photos.app") or by logging in as root. But if you are willing to use such tools, then the first Terminal command is the much less invasive solution (and it doesn't even need sudo).

Seedeich · Aug 30, 2016

When you come from PC land it makes perfectly sense to uninstall all kinds of preinstalled software that you have no intention to use.

For now I’ll leave Photos as it is and uncheck for new cards.

I’m more interested now to get a workflow that is efficient. Trying out DxO for PP and finding a good geotagging software, that writes coordinates to the RAW files. LR doesn’t do that and Geosetter which I used on PC doesn’t work on Mac.

noirdesir · Aug 30, 2016

Seedeich said:
When you come from PC land it makes perfectly sense to uninstall all kinds of preinstalled software that you have no intention to use.

You have to differentiate between software that is part of the OS (or at the least comes from the OS vendor, ie, Microsoft with PCs) and third-party software that the hardware vendor adds. The latter part doesn't exist with Macs as the hardware vendor is the OS vendor.

Deleting Photos is a bit like deleting Internet Explorer (or Edge) from a Windows installation. You might not use it, but it is still part of the OS to some degree. There are a few bundled applications on OS X that could be called gratuitous: Chess, Photo Booth, Stickies, Stocks ... but already with Stickies some people might argue that an OS should have a native notes application. And the worst theses applications do is to take up space on disk (<10 MB each).

Seedeich said:
I’m more interested now to get a workflow that is efficient. Trying out DxO for PP and finding a good geotagging software, that writes coordinates to the RAW files. LR doesn’t do that and Geosetter which I used on PC doesn’t work on Mac.

My idea of an efficient workflow is one where only one application is involved.

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