In the above example, you have pictures from 2009-10-18 so as soon as you insert the card, FlashPipe's subfolder will already say "2009-10-18".  That's the only day for which you have pictures on the card so your subfolder will automatically show that.  So set the "To Folder" to 2009/2009_10, click "Go" and you're done.

The next time you download, you might have pictures from October 24.  So you insert your card and click "Go" an you're done.  Your pictures will go into 2009/2009_10/2009-10-24.

The only differences using that method between FP and DL Pro are:

• Obviously you'd have to change your "To Folder" once a month
• If you have say three days of photos, DL Pro will create three new folders: 2009/2009_10/2009-10-24, 2009/2009_10/2009-10-25, and 2009/2009_10/2009-10-26.  FP will create one folder: 2009/2009_10/2009-10-24..2009-10-26.

That's based on what you like to do.  For me, splitting 2009 into months is just extra work all the way around.  I don't use DAM software because I don't need it.  I create ONE folder for the year and I let the download date(s) dictate the folder.  So in my 2009 folder I'll have a folder named 2009-10-24..2009-10-26 automatically: that tells me that I downloaded photos from that date range.  Sometimes I'll add a description to that manually like 2009-10-24..2009-10-26-Siesta-Key so I can look at that and tell that the folder contains photos from those three days and that the subject of the photos was Siesta Key Beach.  It's elegant, simple, and most importantly deliberate!  I haven't arbitrarily created three new folders just because there were three days worth of photos on the card.  It creates one folder that automatically shows the date range of the photos in that folder and after the download, I can make a conscious decision as to whether or not they NEED to be split further.  If I came back from a three day beach trip with the family, I'd likely leave all three days in one folder: no sense splitting them so I can only see one day at a time when I want to print all photos of Uncle Jesse playing with the kids on the beach for him to take home.  If one of the three days was actually a boating event that I want to separate, I can make that decision to split those to another folder (and I can do that easily based on file date) but that should be a conscious decision, not a decision made by a program automatically.  But that's just me.  

Mike

It's likely my fault for not explaining better.
The subfolder naming when turned on Automatic, It says Create Subfolders by date.
Then if RANGE is turned on, it will show in the Subfolder name that the shots on the card were taken on dates from (10-15-2009 to 10-17-2009)
Sorry, I just can't explain it any better than that.
Maybe someone else can do better?
Fred

Simply go into Settings and turn on the date range feature.
There are so may options to set to please as many as possible.
Fred

There are rows that you can make for each transfer condition that you may like, regardless of how unique any one of those might be.
As Terry said, (and this is the main point) once you set up a row to do a special transfer with a specially named folder, and have a date param. set, you can turn that off when not in use, and on when needed.
Make row after row of your oddest setups. Flashpipe will remember them and use them only when you switch them on. !

Well, you can type in any folder name you like 

You call that intuitive and what about all those clicks for the tick boxes 

If a new folder is created for each day, you'd have a folder for each day that had pictures from each camera: potentially dozens of folder.
Mike

In the case you describe, I would then switch off the sub-folder option in Settings and select the existing folder in the Folder column of the output table.
Thus, there is total flexibility in this case and you can choose what to do; Not everyone would want to do as you suggest automatically. 
Terry.

IMO, you're not making a very good case for creating so many folders.  If your DAM is going to do the work, why would you care that there are three days worth of photos in one folder instead of one folder per day.  The one-folder-per-day option is completely arbitrary while the time/date that you download info from your cards is deliberate.  Splitting photos by day simply makes no sense.  What if you are covering an event that goes past midnight?  Do you really want the latter part of the event in a different folder?  I honestly think that the only people who are doing this are the people who had been using DL Pro in the past and they did it because DL Pro didn't offer a better way.  It just doesn't make sense to arbitrarily create folders in an uncontrollable environment where the data on the card creates new folders without user confirmation/intervention.  If you really have a need to split your photos by day, just buy smaller cards and switch cards each day.  Or better yet, go to the folder and then decide whether or not you really need to split them by day!  If you do, select the ones from a certain date (that can be done by auto-renaming or even by the file date if you don't rename) and move the ones that really need to be in different folders rather than blindly assuming breaks by day.  You say you are using a DAM, so if you are that should be easy.  If you are not, then you probably won't want your images spread across so many directories anyway.

I see no argument for keeping the original file name either!  What information do you really get from _MG_1798?  If that's really important to you, just rename by date and leave the _IM_1798 at the end of the file name like: 2009-10-16 _IM_1798.  Best of both worlds.

And if you are worried about having almost 1000 folders off your main folder if you have three years of data, why worry about it?  Just select/create a year and let FlashPipe do the rest.  Use c:\photos\2009 as your folder and FlashPipe will create a folder each time you download that tells you the dates of the files in that folder.  You'll certainly have far fewer folders doing it that way than you will be forcing the software to create a new folder for every day you have images!

Mike

I tried DLP and found it more complicated than I needed.  Plus, I could not find out if it also downloaded videos as FP does.  Since we do take some video on my wife's cameras, this is a useful and time-saving feature.  FP's interface is very easy to use without too much switching between different tabs and menus.  Finally, the introductory price for FP is $10.00 cheaper than DLP.  As a matter of pure cost, I did not feel that DLP added enough to merit the additional expenditure.

- Chris