dumpstick

If you have a Sony digital still camera with a USB port such as the DSC-F505 or a USB memory stick adapter, you can use dumpstick to download the contents to your FreeBSD file server.

Copying the files in and of itself is trivial, but dumpstick does more than that: it preserves the creation dates of your JPG's and MOV's while copying them into a directory named after the date on which they were taken, creating directories as needed. Between that and zumbnail you should be set.

The companion script cleanstick will do exactly what its name suggests and will do so without prompting you whether or not you are absolutely sure you want to blow away the data on your stick.

In case you didnt know: Sony memory sticks can go through laundry at least twice without loosing any data. Mind you, all traces of the paper label will be gone, but the data will still be there.

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