For the record:  Lightroom was free to all owners of the excellent RawShooter (which Adobe had acquired) -- I certainly did not have to pay a cent for it.

My hunch is that there would be much less unhappiness over the introduction of Ultimate (and the initial payment for it and for subsequent upgrades) if it was abundantly clear that it is in a very real sense a new product and not just a partial revamping of Studio with FlashPipe incorporated. 

A detailed side-by-side (columnar) listing of the features that the four versions of Qimage have would help, not just to convince one that Qimage Ultimate is indeed a new/different product but also to guide future purchasers of the different versions of the software. 

Perhaps such a listing already exists, in which case my apologies for suggesting that there should be one.  But my point still stands, namely, that there is likely to be much less fuss, petulance, talk of loyalty, wanting something for nothing, etc., etc., if Ultimate were clearly seen to be a new product, a sufficiently advanced to warrant acquiring and to justify a fresh payment by existing owners of Qimage and Flashpipe.

Incidentally, I will not hesitate to buy Ultimate once I am sure that it provides more/better printing features than Qimage Studio and a better interface for managing that task.  I would still prefer a version just for printing, without the clutter of (no doubt excellent) features (e.g., raw processing, which for Lightroom is much more to my liking).

I, too, use Qimage solely for printing and would greatly welcome (and be happy to pay for) a version solely for printing.

Ernest

The new version (106) skips duplicates as requested.  Many thanks, Mike!

Ernest D-A

Mike:

So you want to protect us from ourselves!  A more thoroughgoing way to do that would be to remove the "Move" option and leave us to erase what we want from the flash card independently of FlashPipe.  (Of course, I am not recommending that!)

If you were to provide the overwrite/skip/renumber option (recommended by Brian Price) but only for the "Copy" option, there should be no worry about our mistakenly thinking that all the data have been removed from the card when in fact they were not.  (However, I would prefer that option for "Move" also, and take responsibility for my overwrite/skip decisions).

E.

Terry: I was not speaking of duplicates on the flash card but of files that had on an earlier occasion been copied from the flash card to the currently selected copy/move-to folder.

Mike:  Since FlashPipe does identify duplicates (and then gives the new copy a distinguishing file name), I thought it wouldn't  be too difficult to have it skip copying/moving those particular files,  that is, if an option to do so is made available, say, on the Settings page.

E.

I would find the software more suited to my needs if I could

(a) select files from the flash card to copy/move, etc.
(b) have the option for duplicates not to be copied/moved etc.

(I don't think this is possible at present with Flashpipe).

As far as (a) is concerned, even the ability to select by file date or file format alone would be welcome, though display of thumbnails would be useful too.

By the way, I am particularly impressed with the speed of the transfer from the flash card.

(I was typing this reply when I must have pressed a wrong key and it vanished.  My apologies if that nearly finished one shows up).

You can send a picture to Qimage if you set up Qimage as an external editor in Lightroom.  (This is done via Preferences).

When this has been set up, you can send Qimage the picture you have selected in Lightroom by clicking "Photo", then "Edit in" and then  "Edit in Qimage.exe".

This is fine for a single picture.  I suspect that if you select a set of images in Lightroom and follow the above steps, that set will be sent to Qimage.  (This is a guess: I have not tried it -- I find that exporting files from Lightroom and then running Qimage on its own much more convenient).