usbcopy

A utility to watch USB/Removable drives and copy files to the destination folder automatically. The destination folder can be either synced to cloud or import into Lightroom catalog With this tool, it can largely improve your photography post-processing workflow.

Inspired by Synology USB Copy add-on package.

How to use

CLI

• simple

C:\> usbcopy.exe -volume Z

Usage of usbcopy.exe:
  -dst string
        absolute path to the destination folder (default "E:/Photos/raw/%year%-%month%-%day%/%name%_%counter%.%extension%")
  -filters string
        a comma seperated list of file extensions without prefixed dot (default "NEF,JPEG,JPG,MOV,MP4")
  -src string
        absolute path to the source folder (default "%volume%:/DCIM")
  -volume string
        volume letter (default "Z")

• watch

C:\> usbcopy.watch.exe

Usage of usbcopy.watch.exe:
  -dst string
        absolute path to the destination folder (default "E:/Photos/raw/%year%-%month%-%day%/%name%_%counter%.%extension%")
  -filters string
        a comma seperated list of file extensions without prefixed dot (default "NEF,JPEG,JPG,MOV,MP4")
  -interval int
        watch interval in seconds (default 3)
  -src string
        absolute path to the source folder (default "%volume%:/DCIM")
  -volume string
        volume name to watch, no need to be full name (default "Z 6_2")

GUI

C:\> usbcopy.gui.exe

You should be able to see the icon in system tray of right corner.

In GUI mode, there is a usbcopy.yml beside for configurations and usbcopy.log for logging.

Notifications will be sent when something needs your attention.

• USB injected
• USB ejected
• file copying complete

variables

When you specify src-path, dst-path, some variables can be used to dynamically build the path

• src-path

  • %volume%: volume letter which was detected by usbcopy

• dst-path

  • %filename%: file name with extension
  • %name%: file name only
  • %extension%: file extension
  • %dir%: file base folder relative to source-path
  • %year%: modification year
  • %month%: modification month
  • %day%: modification day

SD Card / CF Express

You need a card reader to plug in PC and it is mounted as a USB massive storage, then use usbcopy to scan the disk and copy photos.

MTP/PTP

If your camera only allows MTP/PTP device when connecting to PC using USB cable, you have to mount MTP device as a Massive Storage, MTPDrive is a good companion to help you set it up automatically.

Once MTP device is mapped to a removable storage, then you can use usbcopy to scan the disk and copy photos.

Roadmap

• System tray
• Windows desktop notification integration
• better logging & configuration
• flexible file renaming strategies and directory layout
• Windows service wrapper