Sounds like you may have brought us a great test case. Glad you saw the missing. Did not know the F5 trick which, from it's behaviour, seems to reset DPP4's relationship to the Windows file system. Using a swappable SATA SSD with similar image count...
Oh yeah. Definitely get a card reader. Get it with your first cards. As of this writing, Prograde externals are the fastest readers I have found. Direct link to camera as a standard, frequent practice = ??+!!...?
... follow up note. When I first copy files to a drive just checking the JPEGs or clicking through them on the Windows photo viewer isn't a bad way to go either. It will read the JPEGs and ignore the CR3's. A lot times that's actually my first ste...
Still need to upgrade from Win 10-64 myself but as a general rule, I never use the EOS Utility for downloads. I've used it once or twice to preview the images, but it's always seemed like a lot of stress to put on the camera's card reading function ...
Hey, I apologize in advance for going to the basics here, but when my rating count doesn't seem to be adding up, I've learned to check the sorting parameter. If "filename" or "rating" has an asterisk by it, i.e. "Filename*" I've learned that it's tr...