I copy those to local disk, and it can read them just fine! These are some of the issues an engineer faces. Advanced renamer can get to my Canon attached cameras and read metadata just fine, but on my iPhone it can see the folders and files but can’t get the metadata. For example, Photo Mechanic won’t do that. Adding to the complexity is when you want to ingest directly from the USB or wirelessly connected cameras. I offer the guess that the cost of engineering and supporting a truly flexible ingesting/copy/move option would raise PL’s cost. It costs $30 for a commercial license, so it’s relatively affordable compared to PL. Along with renaming based on exiftool and file metadata, it can also move or copy files to metadata derived folder structures. Another solution that I know of and use (though it’s a little nerdy) is Advanced Renamer which only exists for Windows. As of right now, the two generic solutions I know of are Photo Mechanic which costs about the same that PL does. However, keeping this running as various OS’s evolve can be an intensive project. Thanks to exiftool, most metadata can be used in naming schemes. ![]() Everyone has their own idea of how to organize their files and folders and how to name their images. This is part of the rabbit hole I mentioned in my other comment. Renaming features that are based on metadata and allowed custom text, renumbering etc. However, in 2017 Marc stopped supporting the program because keeping up with the ever changing OS’s of Apple and Microsoft (and the ensuing obscure bugs) was not sustainable for him. I did this because I changed camera brands and decided I needed a neutral software approach. ![]() For a long time, I used a simple, small program called image ingester by Marc Rochkind who based his work on the seminal “DAM” book by Keogh. However, that can lead to an endless rabbit hole of photo ingesting. I selected it because of the computer practice I learned from Unix of keeping folder structure/file names relevant so that things can be ported to different systems and still mean the same thing. It was one of the options I selected in the Canon software I was using then. I have done the same thing (except I just use “DD”) from the very beginning of digital, somewhere around 2002. So photos taken today would go into “/Digital Photos/20-03-22” Very simple: I use a hierarchy /Digital photos/Year/Month/Date
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