Unable to copy+paste images from digicam

Callius

Hey,

My girlfriend has a canon point-and-click camera.

When I connect it to my computer via usb I am unable to copy+paste the files directly from the camera onto my hard drive. It just doesn't do anything.

I can, however, use the windows camera wizard to copy files on to my hard drive.

Does anyone have any ideas on what may be causing this?

SeñorAmor

Does your computer see the camera as a removable hard drive or something else?

Szechuanosaurus

That's just what some cameras do. Most of them don't work like removable media storage devices.

Zifnab

Is there a compact flash card in the camera, or are you just working off the camera's internal memory (I think Canon uses compact flash..). I seem to remember my Sony camera only showing up as an external device after I had installed a memory stick, something to do with the way the computer reads the camera's internal memory. That might have something to do with it, although I'm not sure how to use this knowledge to fix your current problem.

Callius

SeñorAmor wrote:

Does your computer see the camera as a removable hard drive or something else?

It's showing the camera as a camera, which is a removable media device.

I was previously able to copy+paste the files over to my hard drive, which is why this is frustrating me so much.

Also, it uses Compact Flash, it does not have internal memory (or at least, it does not write the image files to any internal memory it may have).

denihilist

This happened to me when my batteries were low. Have you changed the batteries?

Callius

denihilist wrote:

This happened to me when my batteries were low. Have you changed the batteries?

Yes, multiple times.

Mind you, this is also the same computer which has decided that burning CD's is too much work. So it doesn't.

I hate my computer and am tempted to reformat, but... ugh.