When you start the program for the first time it will look like the top image to the right. 

In the background, it will also create a settings file at C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Roaming/ericmichelin/photo_import_settings.json
Pressing the settings button in the top right will open this file in your default text editor for JSON files. 

The settings file holds 4 key pieces of information:

• sd_card: The path of the files to be copied

• local: The path to save files to on your local computer

• remote: a path not on your local computer to also save files to (ex: network file share)

• import_history:  The time of the last import, in format YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00

You can use the GUI to update all of these paths via the Change button to the right of each respective path. The last import date will only be updated after a successful import.

You can also specify a name for the folder that will be created to hold your copied files. If no name is provided the folder will just be named the date the import started. If a name is provided the date is also prefixed so that it is easier to sort the folders by date.

Pressing Start Copy will start a multi-threaded copy which will start to copy the files to both locations at once. this does not require that the files copy at the same rate; one copy can finish before the other does. In the middle screenshot on the left, the folder in both the local and remote locations was titled "2021-01-27 - selfies"

After the copy is started you will see the progress bars start to fill in as the files get copied. Also to the right of the progress bar, you will find a count of how many files have finished copying and how many there are total.

Once the files are done being copied to both the local and remote locations you will see a bit of text also indicating this at the bottom of the window. If you attempt to close the application while a copy is in progress it will wait to finish the current file being copied then quit. 

When you reopen the program the next time it will auto-populate the last file paths used