Hi Diana, If you still think iPhoto is unnecessarily complicated, have you tried opening Image Capture with the camera connected by usb and seeing if Image Capture sees the Canon camera?
I also prefer to organise my photos how I want to file them - rather than the way iPhoto wants to file them - and use a separate editor (eg Photoshop Elements or Graphic Converter) if I want to edit them. My old Canon camera has now died :o( - but with my iPhone, I have turned off synching with iPhoto and I use Image capture to download photos off the phone. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/2/12 12:15 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens at diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: > I have avoided iPhoto & iTunes up until now as I thought they were > unnecessarily complicated. > > I hate the way iPhoto puts one camera download in multiple folders if the pics > were not all taken on the same day. I previously used the Canon software but > my camera is so old there is no OSX version. Now I have a MacBookPro it is > iPhoto or a card reader. > > I only used iTunes to put Pod Casts on my iPod but now I find I like some > music on my iPad. I imported a Peggy Lee / George Shearing Album from CD and > it filed the two instrumentals under George and the vocals under Peggy. Same > nasty busy-body behaviour! > > But I need to learn to cope with this and manage my files. Please someone > point me towards a tutorial for the simple-minded. > > And maybe someone can advise me about the iTunes Store. I wanted to buy a few > tracks from the Kate Bush Album 'The Kick Inside', it is $8.99 and contains 13 > tracks, 12 at $2.19 each plus one at $1.69, doesn't add up. Buying the album > is the best option but can I be sure I shall get all the tracks? If I don't > get them all they may not include the ones I want. > > Best wishes to all from Diana > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
