Fujifilm XT5: Managing your jpegs and raw files

I recently bought a Fufjilm XT-5, and set it up to save each of the photos I take as both RAW and JPEG files. On my first hiking outing, which was just a simple 5 hour day hike, I had 60GB (!) of files to sort through which is a pretty ridiculous, and not something I was used to dealing with after a life spent just taking photos on my mobile. I’m just trying to memo this for myself - hoping over time I can streamline this process.

Connecting my Fujifilm to my Mac

1. Make sure Fujifilm’s connection mode is in “USB card reader mode” and the USB power supply/comm setting is set to auto (or off/on).
2. Open the Mac app “Image Capture” and use it to copy-paste across the photos. I create a new folder starting with the date and then a short description.

Tagging and deleting photos with Adobe Bridge

The first thing I need to do is cull down a lot of photos, and figure out which ones I will want to share on my blog and Instagram. Right now I’m using Adobe Bridge for this. The UI is a little bit janky (I don’t really know what all of the panels do) but it’s free so it’s good enough for me.

1. Open the folder in Adobe Bridge.
2. Use the Search bar in the top right, and only show files ending in .jpg. I’ll come back to deal with the RAW files later.
3. Go through each photo, labelling ones I want to use on my blog or on Instagram (you can hit cmd + 6 through 9 to add colour labels).
4. I hit the Backspace button for each one I want to delete. This adds a “Reject” rating to the photo.
5. At the end, I sort the photos by their rating, and mass-delete all the ones set to “Reject”.
6. Since I’ve only deleted the jpeg files, I still need to delete the accompanying raws. I open a terminal window in the folder, and use the following:

for raw in *.RAF; do base="${raw%.*}"; if [ ! -f "${base}.jpg" ] && [ ! -f "${base}.jpeg" ] && [ ! -f "${base}.JPG" ] && [ ! -f "${base}.JPEG" ]; then echo "Moving to Trash: $raw"; mv "$raw" ~/.Trash/; fi; done

This just goes through and deletes any RAW file that does not have an accompanying JPEG. Being fairly ruthless, I managed to get my initial 60GB down to 14GB (woo).