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SD card import + rename patterns

From card → album → cull-ready in three clicks.

SnapFlow Sync auto-detects camera cards when you plug them in. A modal appears with the volume name + a count of detected photos.

  1. Pick which album the photos should land in.
  2. (Optional) Open the Rename pattern section — your default filename template is pre-selected, with a live preview of how the first file will be renamed.
  3. (Optional) Pick an Ingest profile to apply IPTC defaults + photographer profile at the same time.
  4. Click Import & cull (local only) or Import & sync (also push to SnapFlow).

Files land in ~/SnapFlow Sync/[album]/raws/. On APFS the copy uses cp -c (clonefile) so it's effectively instant, regardless of card size.

Dedup: re-inserting the same card after a partial import only copies files that aren't already in the album.