[Leica] Downloading Files on to Aperture 2

[csemetko at gmail.com (Craig Semetko)]

Thank you Alastair and Jayanand--I've moved from Phnom Penh to Hanoi  
and my internet has been sketchy. I appreciate the help--I am taking  
all advice. In the meantime, I bought another 8 gig card in Laos and  
it's serving me well. I'll try to post some pix when I get some more  
downloaded.

Thanks again,

Craig


On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:45 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:

>>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I'm on the road and getting overwhelmed with digital files, and
>> computer technology is not my strong point. I have a 500 GB lacie  
>> hard
>> drive with me, and I'm running a macbook pro with Aperture 2. The  
>> hard
>> drive on my computer is virtually full. Is there a way to download
>> digital files from my M9 directly onto the Lacie, bypassing my
>> computer's hard drive? Or do I have to download the files in  
>> Aperture,
>> then dump the files from Aperture onto the external drive?
>>
>> The thing that makes me crazy about doing that is in Aperture, a
>> typical M9 file is 17.48mb; when I drop and drag them on the Lacie,
>> and subsequently open them from the Lacie in PS3, they are 12.9mb, at
>> 72 resolution. To the technically challenged, this appears that by
>> simply dropping and dragging a file on to an external HD I'm losing
>> almost 5mb of information. Is this the case? Am I doing something  
>> wrong?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Craig
>
> Can't be specific in Aperture, but in LR and I suspect aperture you  
> can
> choose where the files are being stored at the time of download. I  
> always
> download onto the external drives NOT the lap or desk top hard  
> drives for
> this very reason. LR keeps track of where they are stored and even  
> if the
> external drive is not connected it will give me thumbnails. I would  
> use
> the finder to transfer files from the computer hd to the external  
> and you
> should not lose data that way, but you will have to re-import them  
> anyway
> into aperture, so why not do it at the time you first import from the
> camera.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alastair