Re: Canon A720 IS - drive letter access?


"Jonathan Berry" <jberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 20, 7:41 pm, "Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dud...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jonathan Berry" <jbe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Is there a driver which allows you to access the Canon A720 IS as a
drive letter?

With three (a Kodak, a Sony vidcam, and an Olympus) previous cameras,
I was able to ignore the install disks and very efficiently download
photos via USB using batch files. Almost zero overhead.

But with the A720 IS, plugging the camera in does not produce a drive
letter. In XP SP2, the computer told me that the software for the
camera had installed, but nothing.

What's worse is that the bloated installation software requires
dotnet, so if any friend has a computer not up to Win2K SP4, it will
not be possible to share, and who wants to carry a disk around anyway?

Yes, I know that I can take the SD-card (and batteries) out of the
camera and use it with a card reader. That is not what I am looking
for.

Thanks!

--
Jonathan Berry

I don't know if this will help, but you might want to give it a try.
(Your
version of Windows may be slightly different, but you should be able to
do
the same thing with only slight alteration.)

Plug your camera into the USB port and load Windows Explorer.

RIGHT-click on Canon Powershot A720 IS.

Thanks, Dudley. Unfortunately, it breaks down already here. I hear
the tone indicating that the computer has recognized the USB device,
but there is no
new item in Windows Explorer. F5 also reveals nothing new.

I wonder if it is a conflict with the Fujitsu ScanSnap (scanner)
installed on a different USB port ...? Unplugging the ScanSnap before
plugging in the A720 does not change what happens (or from my point of
view, what doesn't happen).

Sorry, Jonathon, I missed that little detail. With my A720, it shows up in
Windows Explorer as a resource just below Control Panel, but it doesn't
have a drive letter. I thought yours was doing the same thing.

Have you checked the Device Manager (on the Hardware tab under the System
icon of the control panel) to see if the A720 is listed under "Imaging
Devices"?
If it is listed but not functioning, you can either troubleshoot, uninstall
or upgrade the driver from that area.

Good Luck,
Dudley



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