Cutting photos from sd card

After you copy the image files, you can simply drag from the SD card folder to the trash and empty the trash.

However, personally after I copy the images from the card I put the card back in the camera and format it.

Hi there alimacali,

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alimacali wrote:

I assumed that copying photo files would degrade them hence the need to ‘cut’ them rather than copy. I have since learned that copying a photo file once will have no effect on the quality of the image.

Copying the file will not affect image quality. However, if you're using a lossy image format (like JPG), opening the file and re-saving it will cause in loss of quality, although arguably not really perceptible unless you do it very frequently to the same file.

I use Apple's Image Capture app that came as part of macOS to edit/cut unwanted pics from my DSLR's card. Quite easy to use. See:

Image Capture User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

Sorry, I associated "cut" with deleting files that were not needed for the transfer.