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Need APP to move lots of images to PC

Kevin889

Kevin889

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Hi all

I have an app for a work project on a Galaxy S7 that takes 1 photo a second for 6 hours or more. At the end of the day I have over 20,000 images which come in at 3.5GB on average. I want to send these to a 2TB back up drive as quckly as possible.

My Windows 8.1 PC wont copy/paste direct from the phone to a back up drive, it crashes. If I copy/paste to my desktop (SSD) it takes over 90 minutes.

Is there an app that can speed all this up for me? Can I somehow direct connect a large back up drive to my phone and transfer the data fast?

TIA
 
Compress the folder they're in to a single zip archive using the phone's file management app. Then you'll only have one file to transfer then, albeit a large one

You might be able to connect the 2TB USB hard drive directly the phone via OTG, but the hard drive must have its own power source and be formatted as FAT32 or exFAT. Or you always get a suitable sized USB thumb drive, 4GB at least for the pics, the things are cheap enough and readily available. And connect that via OTG. S7 takes a micro-SD of course, so if your computer has a card reader, transfer the pics that way.
 
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Can you use another phone with SD card? Moving data from a SD card to PC using a card reader is usually fast and safe. And if your phone dies for whatever reason, the photos will still be there.
 
Thanks for the replys, I'll investigate the SD card options. This image transfer will be done on a daily basis at the end of a work day so needs to be as fast and hassle free as possible with the minimum amount of steps.
 
Instead of running it for 6 hours ... how about you restart it every hour and transfer whatever was captured the previous hour as it continues to run?

Based on your estimate at the end of the day you would have one hour to transfer that would be about 500MB.

... Thom
 
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Thom said:
Instead of running it for 6 hours ... how about you restart it every hour and transfer whatever was captured the previous hour as it continues to run?

Based on your estimate at the end of the day you would have one hour to transfer that would be about 500MB.

... Thom
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The phone could be in autonomous mode with nobody around.

And making an automatic, timed files transfer out of the phone isn't an easy task, if something goes wrong the whole work of the day could be lost.
 
It would seem all the images could be written to the same folder.
Every hour the sequence number of the current image is identified.
The camera keeps pumping the 3.5GB of data into the folder.
A parallel task forwards the images from the last hour stopping at the recorded image number.

At the end of the day you have 3.5GB of data in the folder and 3.5GB minus .5GB already transferred. You need to transfer the last .5GB chunk.

If something "goes wrong" you can do the 90 min transfer of the 3.5GB folder.

(Is the point that the camera running prevents use of anothertask at the same time?)

... Thom
 
Thanks again, no the PC isn't Linux.

The phone is being used as a programmable camera, nothing more.

Due to the nature of the work the images can't be transferred in part during the day. The phone spends 6hrs in a custom bracket capturing images of footpaths (sidewalks for those stateside!). At the end of the day the footpath inspector needs to transfer these to a backup device as fast as possible, so the phones memory is free for the next day.

The images are being recorded to a separate folder and each image is time stamped.
 
Kevin889 said:
Hi all

I have an app for a work project on a Galaxy S7 that takes 1 photo a second for 6 hours or more. At the end of the day I have over 20,000 images which come in at 3.5GB on average. I want to send these to a 2TB back up drive as quckly as possible.

My Windows 8.1 PC wont copy/paste direct from the phone to a back up drive, it crashes. If I copy/paste to my desktop (SSD) it takes over 90 minutes.

Is there an app that can speed all this up for me? Can I somehow direct connect a large back up drive to my phone and transfer the data fast?

TIA
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The reason for this is the Windows App you are using, get TeraCopy installed and use that.

But, copying from the USB port on that phone, to a backup harddrive that is also USB is going to be extremely time consuming.

To me, it would be far better and safer to get a different phone, or camera that uses an extSDcard.
Pull the card, insert into a SDcard holder and plug into the PC, TeraCopy can pull everything off that SDcard in seconds.

TeraCopy for Microsoft Windows - Code Sector

The nice thing about TeraCopy is it will halt and ask you what you want to do with a corrupted file, and how do you want to treat other similar files. once you do that, it is automatic until it finishes. IF no corrupted files, it is just plain fast and rarely ever exhibits problems.

I used it to copy 485 gBtyes of music from a SSD over to an external USB backup harddrive. Took most of the night to get that done and it did not fail.
 
Kevin889 said:
Hi all

I have an app for a work project on a Galaxy S7 that takes 1 photo a second for 6 hours or more. At the end of the day I have over 20,000 images which come in at 3.5GB on average. I want to send these to a 2TB back up drive as quckly as possible.

My Windows 8.1 PC wont copy/paste direct from the phone to a back up drive, it crashes. If I copy/paste to my desktop (SSD) it takes over 90 minutes.

Is there an app that can speed all this up for me? Can I somehow direct connect a large back up drive to my phone and transfer the data fast?

TIA
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Hi! Try Airmore! That's what I'm using when I'm transferring photos. but i don't know if you can transfer it directly to your hard drive coz mine is stored only on my downloads folder. Well, you can just transfer from your downloads to your HD.
 
Phone with sdcard. At end of day put in new card. Copy at your leisure. If it's only 3.5GB then a couple of 8GB cards should be fine (for a good one ... https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Im...8&qid=1480586436&sr=8-3&keywords=8gb+micro+sd ...), maybe even one for each (working?) day of the week.

Each would need to be formatted correctly but you could set up the card beforehand by first creating a template sdcard on the pc. When you've copied the files off a used one just copy the 'template' onto it.
 
Winni Netto said:
Hi! Try Airmore! That's what I'm using when I'm transferring photos. but i don't know if you can transfer it directly to your hard drive coz mine is stored only on my downloads folder. Well, you can just transfer from your downloads to your HD.
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Or Apowersoft Phone Manager, i think it's more advisable than Airmore if you are transferring large files since it's more advanced than latter. Check the app here and tell me if it's useful to you https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apowersoft.phone.manager&hl=en
 
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