Re: Export vs. download and import vs. upload

Eric Scheid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.chi-web
Message-ID <C4D32146.1538AD%[email protected]>
On 20/8/08 10:56 PM, "Cristóbal Palmer" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Personally I've seen "import" in that context too many times to answer
> "download" and have it feel right.

hmm .. I would "download" from the camera, a process which makes lots of
files in folders, and then "import" them into my photo management software.

If your process short circuits those two actions, then referring to it as
"importing" makes sense.

e. 

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