[mklein]

Hi CHris,

Another feature request: When using the "backup" plugin it's possible to backup JPEGs, all files and all files except for JPEGs.

I would like to backup my DNG files to a specific folder, but this isn't possible at the moment, right? Could you extend the backup functionality in order to backup DNG files only?

Regards,
Michael

[Chris Breeze]

If you use the "Backup all except JPEGs" option it will backup DNG and other non-JPEG files. Hopefully this will cover most situations. It isn't really practical to extend this to cover every combination of file types.

[ggivensjr]

Hi Chris,

Along those same lines is it possible to split the raw and jpg files? For example I would donload only jpg files to f:\my pictures and arw to the backup location.

Thanks Chris,
George

[Chris Breeze]

All images have to be downloaded to the main download folder. You can then use the backup plug-in to make copies of all files, JPEGs only or all except JPEGs to up to two backup locations. If you don't want a folder containing both JPEGs and raws you could make the main download location a temporary folder that you later delete and use the two backup locations to save JPEGs and non-JPEGs to different locations. Alternatively you could use the {E} tokens to separate different file types into different subfolders.

[mklein]

Chris, is it possible to backup the DNG files created by the DNG converter plugin? On my system DLP uses a special folder for the converted DNG files and it would be great if the program could create an initial backup of these DNGs - and not of the original raw files.

[Chris Breeze]

It isn't possible to do this with the backup plug-in because plug-ins only operate on the downloaded files and don't know about files created by other plug-ins. You could write an enhanced DNG plug-in that runs Adobe's DNG converter to create the DNG file and then backs it up to a second location.

[mklein]

Thanks for your reply, Chris. Unfortunately I'm not a developer :( is there any chance to integrate a backup into your DNG plugin?

[Chris Breeze]

I don't think I can justify the time and cost needed to develop a plug-in to do this as it is somewhat specialised. If you keep a copy of the original raw file (which is probably a good idea anyway) this can be used as a backup for the DNG file. You can always create a new DNG copy from the original raw file if something happens to the DNG file.