Mike,

Hello.  I just purchased FlashPipe and I like it a lot.  One thing that I think would be useful as a feature in a future version would be an additional transfer option that will only copy those files with the archive bit set, and then clear the archive bit.  It would also be useful to have an option that only clears the archive bits, so you could put it at the end of a series of other copy operations.  Some other picture transfer utilities use that method to mark the pictures as already transferred, so they can ignore them next time.  I realize that FlashPipe is smart enough to skip files that are already in the destination, but it is still slow for it to go through a 16 GB SDHC card full of pictures, just to skip most of them.

I realize that I could use the move option to get the pictures off the card so it won't scan them next time.  However, that's not the way I usually work.  I tend to leave the pictures on the card until it is nearly full, and then clear it off completely.  That allows me to essentially keep a temporary extra backup copy on the SD card during the period between when I transfer them onto the PC, until the next time the PC gets backed up, and until I rotate that with my off-site backup.  I'm a believer in the adage that if you don't have three copies of your digital data, you don't have any copies.

Bill