It means I'd need a second backup source to carry with me when I am on the road, like a GNARBOX or some such. Surely they must be working on this issue-strikes me as a deal killer if the import takes forever and sometimes doesn't work at all. It works fine for importing fewer images that are smaller in size, but you think it should be able to handle an entire 64gb SD card's worth of photos, since that is a pretty typical (even low end) size photo shoot. I am happy to use my M2 MacBook instead, but I was really hoping that the M1 iPad Pro could handle this sort of typical prosumer level workflow dependably. The import process just seems extremely buggy and unstable when processing large volumes of high resolution images.

Whenever I try to import, it takes a very long time, and approximately half the time, it just crashes and I have to re-start, usually four or five tries before it works.

A 64gb card holds around 800 images or so. I shoot until the card is full, then I import the images to Lightroom on my iPad via an SD card reader USB-C adapter. I shoot large DNG raw files on a Leica Q2, usually on a 64gb SD card but sometimes 128gb.

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