Observed arrival · 2026-11-04
Coldcopy: a second archive for camera cards
A macOS command-line tool for copying camera, drone, and recorder media to a working drive and the user’s own AWS Deep Archive.
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- Mac-based photographers and video crews managing card offloads
- Worth noticing
- The page says it re-hashes a random 3% of files on both drives against S3 checksums without downloading or restoring them.
Field notes
The page says devices are recognized by hardware ID and existing files by their content, even when filenames differ. It also describes moving finished projects to an archive drive by updating a path index, rather than uploading the footage again. Coldcopy says its S3 buckets keep versions for 90 days, so mistaken deletions or overwrites remain recoverable during that period.
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