I also always take the card out and slip it into the slot on the laptop, from which I send the images to an external hard drive, from which I post process them (and delete those I'm not keeping) - I always copy what remains of the images onto a second external hard drive before I re-format the card. Oddly for me, I've never forgotten to put the card back in the camera when I've copied the pictures across
PS - I then periodically/sporadically transfer accumulated post-processed jpegs, which I store on the laptop, back to an annual jpeg dump file on both external drives - works for me - especially using Flickr as a sort of cloud indexing system
Too much information regarding the original question, but what you do at any stage of a system is integral to the whole system you work ...
Last edited by ffking; 08-12-2019 at 12:56 AM.