[ubuntu-za] Nautilus for Kodak EasyShare Z740

[Bill Cairns]

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Thanks Russel - I don't have the camera with me at the moment (nor Ubuntu for that matter) but a clue is that Windows sees the camera as a mass storage device and allows me to use Explorer to access the pictures. The device just does not appear in Places anywhere so I can't sic Nautilus on to it.



But thanks for your suggestion - I will look at the camera settings this evening.



Bill



>>> On 20 October 2008 at 04:34 PM, in message

<d2ecf45c0810200734t2c6da8e1l14a551ab93a2bc22 at mail.gmail.com>, "Russell Cloran"

<russell at rucus.net> wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Your camera *should* be on the list when you go to "Places" -> "File

>>> System".  F-Spot can't find them without it being mounted.

> 

> Not entirely true...

> 

> There are (at least) two common ways of moving photos between a camera

> and something else (be it a computer, printer or some other device).

> 

> The most common (which I'm sure you're thinking of) is using USB Mass

> Storage, which is a bit like SCSI-over-USB as I understand it, and is

> what USB flash sticks etc use.

> 

> The second is using "PTP", which it seems like your camera uses (or is

> set to use). gphoto is the library which F-Spot uses to access PTP

> devices.

> 

>> That's what my logical mind tells me but it aint so! Unlike a memory stick

>> it just is not there.

> 

> Your logical mind seems to have assumed a few too many things :)

> 

> I haven't found anything which confirms how your camera can be set up,

> but there may be a "USB Access Mode" or similar setting on it which

> allows you to flip between PTP and USB Mass Storage?

> 

> Alternatively, you could give packages like gphotofs a try -- they

> expose gphoto-compatible (and thus PTP) devices as file systems. I've

> never used it, though, so I have no idea how easy or difficult it will

> be to get going.

> 

> Russell