Image browser ex.... transferring photo's to hard drive

Hello,

Been looking for an answer and the best that I could come up with was from the Canon website (did not satisfy me)...so I thought I would come here and ask. We use Imagebrowser EX to download our pictures from the CF and SD cards (Canon 5d MarkIII). Have only had the camera a couple of weeks. I would like to transfer and/or backup the images onto a portable hard drive (free agent go flex). Doesn't look as though there is an option for doing this. Can anybody shed any light onto this? Are there other effective solutions to downloading jpeg and raw images other than imagebrower ex that would give us the choice of moving the photo's around, preferably in batches.

Maybe I am missing something, thought maybe I could get a definite answer here so as I could avoid spinning my wheels any further.

thanks

john


by the way...love the camera. Compared to my 30d its definitely a big jump.

Well you could simply use the OS's built in file management system, it is afterall designed for moving around files of all types. I use Lightroom for my image management, and so I tend you use that for downloading and and importing images from the card. If I need to move images around for use in LR I use LR's file tools, so that I don't break the database. For copying files for backup, and that is mostly just the RAW's, and a few .PSD files for those images that needed processing in PS, I just do that by copying using the file system. I tend not to have LR copy the images to two places at once, my system is slow enough as it is.

The other option for backup purposes is to simply use an automated backup system, just as you would for any important data.

Alan

How about EOS Utility; didn't you receive that on the disc with the camera? The last time I used it and ZoomBrowser/ImageBrows​er (years ago) it was actually EOS Utility that had the file moving function and it could either be accessed directly or through ImageBrowser. Either way, EOS Utility, of course, had to be installed as a standalone.
If you want to examine, judge, grade and tag photos at the same time as moving/copying them, a file transfer program or a file transfer tool within a larger program can be convenient, but if is simply a matter of copying, I'd agree with Alan that Finder (mac) or Explorer (Windows) is easiest.

Do you have have Bridge? Under FILE theres the option "Get Photos from Camera."