Copying Photos to your Mac
Cascable Transfer supports wirelessly copying photos from your supported camera to a folder on your Mac, it also supports copying directly into Apple Photos and Adobe Lightroom.
Quick Summary
- Connect to your WiFi-enabled camera.
- Select the photos you wish to copy.
- Click the Copy… button.
- Select where you want your photos to be copied.
- Choose the options for your chosen copy target.
- Click Begin Copy.
Copying to a folder on your Mac
Once you’ve selected the photos that you wish to copy to your Mac, click Copy…. In the copy targets list, choose Folder, then select the options that you’d like to use when copying:
Destination
This is the location on your Mac where your photos will be copied. Select the location you’d like your photos copied to by clicking the Choose… button and navigating to the desired folder.
Sort Photos
Cascable Transfer’s photo sorting presets allow powerful customisation of how your photos are structured when they’re copied.
Two Photo Sorting presets are built-in, but you can add your own based on any combination of the following fields:
| Full File Name | IMG_0259.JPG | Full Month Name | September |
| Display Name | IMG_0259 | Short Month Name | Sep |
| File Extension | JPG | Month Number (01) | 09 |
| Format Family | JPEG | Month Number (1) | 9 |
| Full Year | 2016 | Day in Month (01) | 03 |
| Short Year | 16 | Day in Month (1) | 3 |
Examples based on a photo named IMG_0259.JPG taken on September 3rd, 2016.
You can access the Photo Sorting presets from Cascable Transfer’s Preferences.
RAW+JPEG
This option tells Cascable Transfer what to do when it encounters a RAW+JPEG photo pair. You can tell Cascable Transfer to copy both images, just the RAW image, or just the JPEG image.
Copying to Apple Photos
Once you’ve selected the photos that you wish to copy to your Mac, click Copy…. In the copy targets list, choose Photos, then select the options that you’d like to use when copying:
Add to “Imported from Cascable Transfer” album
Checking this checkbox will add the photos you copy into a Photos album called “Imported from Cascable Transfer”. If the album does not already exist in your Photos library, it will be created. If the album does already exist, the new photos will be added to it.
RAW+JPEG
This option tells Cascable Transfer what to do when it encounters a RAW+JPEG photo pair. You can tell Cascable Transfer to copy both images, just the RAW image, or just the JPEG image.
Copying to Adobe Lightroom
Important: In order for Cascable Transfer to communicate with Adobe Lightroom, you need to install a small Lightroom plug-in.
Cascable Transfer will take you through this process the first time you attempt to copy to Lightroom.
If you ever need to remove or reinstall the Lightroom plug-in, head to the Advanced section of
Cascable Transfer’s Preferences.
Once you’ve selected the photos that you wish to copy to your Mac, click Copy…. In the copy targets list, choose Lightroom, then select the options that you’d like to use when copying:
Folder
This menu displays the rolders used by the current Lightroom Catalog. Choose which folder you’d like to copy your photos into using this menu.
Sort Photos
Cascable Transfer’s photo sorting presets allow powerful customisation of how your photos are structured when they’re copied.
Two Photo Sorting presets are built-in, but you can add your own based on any combination of the following fields:
| Full File Name | IMG_0259.JPG | Full Month Name | September |
| Display Name | IMG_0259 | Short Month Name | Sep |
| File Extension | JPG | Month Number (01) | 09 |
| Format Family | JPEG | Month Number (1) | 9 |
| Full Year | 2016 | Day in Month (01) | 03 |
| Short Year | 16 | Day in Month (1) | 3 |
Examples based on a photo named IMG_0259.JPG taken on September 3rd, 2016.
You can access the Photo Sorting presets from Cascable Transfer’s Preferences.
RAW+JPEG
This option tells Cascable Transfer what to do when it encounters a RAW+JPEG photo pair. You can tell Cascable Transfer to copy both images, just the RAW image, or just the JPEG image.
Troubleshooting Lightroom Import
Lightroom Doesn’t Appear As a Destination In Cascable Transfer
Cascable Transfer requires at least Adobe Lightroom 6.0 or Adobe Lightroom CC 2015 in order to automatically import into your Lightroom Catalog. If you have an older version installed, you can use the Folder copy destination to copy photos to your Mac, then manually import them into Lightroom.
Cascable Transfer Displays “Communicating with Lightroom…” For a Long time
Cascable Transfer requires the Lightroom is running to communicate with it, and the latest version of the Cascable Transfer Lightroom plug-in. If quitting and relaunching Lightroom doesn’t help, follow these steps:
- Quit Adobe Lightroom.
- If the copy configuration dialog is showing in Cascable Transfer, click Cancel to close it.
- In Cascable Transfer, choose Preferences… from the Cascable Transfer menu, and navigate to the Advanced section.
- In the Lightroom Plug-In section, click the Remove button to uninstall the plug-in.
- Return to Cascable Transfer’s main window and click Copy… to start again. Cascable Transfer will walk you through the Lightroom plug-in setup process.
