[rollei_list] Re: VERY OT: For PC Computer Gurus Only
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:09:18 -0700
At 02:05 PM 9/14/2006 -0700, Richard responded to Marc James Small:
Yeah, what Nick says. Forget about hooking up the camera and simply
use a card reader (you can get one for about $10-20 USD). That will
show up as a separate drive and you simply drag and drop the images
anywhere you want onto your hard drive.
Richard S.
Actually, they are going for almost nothing at the local Fry's, after
you take all the discounts and mail-in rebates.
You may have to install a driver for the card reader, however there
is a good chance that your XP Pro will dig around and find a driver
for the adapter. With the exception of my first scanner and various
printers, XP Pro seems to have found an acceptable driver for
anything I put in a USB port. I still install the drivers and
connect the cameras directly to the computer, however.
Just a couple of cautions:
1. Don't delete anything from the card using the computer, it
may then have to be formatted again by the camera, thus losing all
the photos on the card.
2. Do a test to verify that the reader doesn't mark the files as
having been accessed, again requiring a re-format in the camera.
3. Use the "Safely Remove Hardware" function before pulling the
card from the reader.
Don Williams
La Jolla, CA
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