I have another computer on the local network, in a different room. It has a
printer attached to it, which has a card reader built into it. I found out
that if I connected to that printer's card reader over my network, I could
transfer all the files I wanted, without any connection problems. That's
fine, but I don't want to have to walk to another room, turn on a second
computer and a printer, just to read an SD card back on the computer in the
first room.
It seems I need to get a dedicated reader. ;-)
take care,
Glen
At 02:59 PM 8/22/2005, P. J. Alling wrote:
I used to have a similar problem when I was using the external card reader
built into my printer. Once I got a dedicated card reader the problem stopped.
Glen wrote:
Has anyone else experienced any problems with transferring the contents
of the *istDS camera to their PC, via the USB cable?
I keep losing my connection for some reason. I will be partially finished
with transferring all the images from my 1GB SD card to the PC, when the
transfer simply hangs. I can look at the list of drives in Windows
Explorer, and the "removable drive" which represented the *istDS no
longer appears in the list at this point. I find that I have to turn the
camera's power off and back on to restore the connection. At that point,
I have to start copying files again, picking up where the previous
attempt had failed. This happens most of the time to me, and it's getting
annoying. I just wondered if it ever happened to anyone else on the list?
I should mention that this not only happens if I try to drag and drop the
files using the Pentax Photo Browser, but also when I use Windows
Explorer to drag and drop the files.
Maybe I should just get a dedicated card reader and not use the USB cable
for transfers?
By the way, I tried the "Remote Assistant" software which was written for
the *istD, and it does indeed work on my DS model. So far, there have
never been any connection problems when using the Remote Assistant
software, but I have to admit that I haven't been using this particular
software for very long.
I also managed to update the firmware in my *istDS via the USB cable
without any problems. It's only the picture uploads I'm having problems with.
take care,
Glen
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