Syncing DSLR cameras using MTPDrive software

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NALTEN

Hello,

I am having issues trying to sync four DSLR cameras to an external SSD. The four nikon D810 cameras are connected to a Windows 10 machine, each with their own USB connection. I am using a program called MTP Drive (https://www.mtpdrive.com/) to assign each camera a drive letter (e.g. X:\, W:\, Y:\ and Z:\), and then using FFS as one would expect to sync between each drive and a backup folder using the "update" sync method.

Now normally this method works fine, but it seems when I have quite a few photos in the cameras, FFS seems to lock up and fail. It seems to work fine when there are only a small amount of photos (e.g. up to 2000 or so). Sometimes FFS also only detects the first folder inside the DSLR folder, when there are often two or three.

Sometimes I can get it to work by editing the batch files and simply re-selecting the source drive, e.g. it says "X:\" and I browse and re-select X:\, which then displays as "X:\".

I can browse the files and folders easily using windows explorer to open X:\ etc. so I'm just not sure where FFS is getting into issues.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Zenju

FreeFileSync supports MTP drives directly, so there is no need for extra software.
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NALTEN

Yes, but multiple devices appear with the same name, so it's difficult to save to the correct location. Also directly with MTP using FFS is quite slow.
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NALTEN

Would there be any way to choose the source as an MTP device based on the device serial number?
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Plerry

Don't know if that works in this case, but did you try using volume names instead of (variable) drive letters.
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NALTEN

I think I found the issue. I need to wait until MTPDrive has retrieved the list of all photos in the device before I use FFSync to copy them.