[joanmc]

It appears that Gnome Viewer no longer has the ability to import photos. Any ideas on how I can download my photos from my camera???

Edit - It also appears that photos can only be seen as thumbnails with no ability to increase the size.......


Joan

[stephen46710]

Hi Joan,

you could try "Digikam" which is in the repo, or if you have a card reader, you could take out the memory card in your camera and load it like a usb stick!!. The latter being a bit more time consuming though!!.

Regards Stephen

[sarcastic_bastard]

GTKam? Gthumb?

[don_crissti]

Shotwell.

[stephen46710]

Picasa is another option

[azziam]

It appears that Gnome Viewer no longer has the ability to import photos. Any ideas on how I can download my photos from my camera???

Edit - It also appears that photos can only be seen as thumbnails with no ability to increase the size.......


Joan

Joan, call me opinionated but I'd skip all those other fine suggestions [I meant that in the nicest way. <G> I haven't looked at all those other possibilities.] and go get Fotoxx from the repos. It gives me every feature I want or need. I use it to import all my photos and do everything to them that needs doing. That said, I have been in the habit for quite some time of ignoring or disabling the popup when I put my card/reader in a USB slot. I always open my Pic Folder and create the directory where I want to dump the photos, if it doesn't yet exist. I also open a second Nautilus window to open the camera or card to get to the photos I'm bringing in. [Nautilis remembers to open at a half-screen width.] Then after I drag them all into my new folder, I can open that folder in fotoxx, retouch and edit and rename photos and not have to switch back and forth between folders. HTH. If I want to see all the photos in my PC at once for housecleaning and organizing, then I open Picasa. I also use Picasa's free online storage and sharing facilities.

[azziam]

Shotwell.

It looked interesting at the website so I installed it and it's now doing it's scan of my Pictures folder! Much like Picasa in this way but it seems to conk out after getting a large bunch without getting them all. Maybe I'll use this for the stuff I'd usually use Picasa for, maybe not yet. Fotoxx is still my champ for editing.

[Dragynn]

Got it. On Zen 2010.10 anyway, my problem was it was not "seeing" the camera as it did in the previous Zen 2010.07 version. Solved by installing cdrkit from the repo. Also fixed the problem with burning iso's.

[azziam]

Got it. On Zen 2010.10 anyway, my problem was it was not "seeing" the camera as it did in the previous Zen 2010.07 version. Solved by installing cdrkit from the repo. Also fixed the problem with burning iso's.

I don't understand what the relationship is between a USB digital camera connection and a CD burning issue??

[Dragynn]

Got it. On Zen 2010.10 anyway, my problem was it was not "seeing" the camera as it did in the previous Zen 2010.07 version. Solved by installing cdrkit from the repo. Also fixed the problem with burning iso's.

I don't understand what the relationship is between a USB digital camera connection and a CD burning issue??

You got me, kinda blew my mind too, I was actually searching for the fix to the iso-burning problem, and after I installed it and got done verifying that it would burn iso's, I plugged my camera in just for grins, and lo and behold it recognized it instantly, and mounted it as in the previous Zen version, and would allow me once again to open and view in Nautilus without having to have an add-on frontend like Shotwell.

[sarcastic_bastard]

Shotwell.

It looked interesting at the website so I installed it and it's now doing it's scan of my Pictures folder! Much like Picasa in this way but it seems to conk out after getting a large bunch without getting them all. Maybe I'll use this for the stuff I'd usually use Picasa for, maybe not yet. Fotoxx is still my champ for editing.

Really? My images folder is obscenely HUGE!!!! and it scanned it fine. Took a while (naturally) but it handled it fine.

[azziam]

Shotwell.

It looked interesting at the website so I installed it and it's now doing it's scan of my Pictures folder! Much like Picasa in this way but it seems to conk out after getting a large bunch without getting them all. Maybe I'll use this for the stuff I'd usually use Picasa for, maybe not yet. Fotoxx is still my champ for editing.

Really? My images folder is obscenely HUGE!!!! and it scanned it fine. Took a while (naturally) but it handled it fine.

I don't know why it dies on the job here. It vanishes and when I reopen it, I see it got a bunch of pics but far from all of them. Also, it has pics organized pretty well into years (naturally some errors here depending on how some pics were ID'ed) and months. My camera time stamps my photos and they all sort out fine up through Sept. October till the present is in one very large folder. Tried again and the app died almost immediately. That was using "Import from folder>naming my whole Home folder>requesting links, not copies." Maybe it has trouble with nested folders? [Google Picasa shows me a complete inventory of every folder (that contains image files) by name with every pic on the drive or at least on the partition. Of course it also struggles with some identification of years.] Of course, I understand that Shotwell is quite new and needing more development.

[sarcastic_bastard]

Shotwell.

It looked interesting at the website so I installed it and it's now doing it's scan of my Pictures folder! Much like Picasa in this way but it seems to conk out after getting a large bunch without getting them all. Maybe I'll use this for the stuff I'd usually use Picasa for, maybe not yet. Fotoxx is still my champ for editing.

Really? My images folder is obscenely HUGE!!!! and it scanned it fine. Took a while (naturally) but it handled it fine.

I don't know why it dies on the job here. It vanishes and when I reopen it, I see it got a bunch of pics but far from all of them. Also, it has pics organized pretty well into years (naturally some errors here depending on how some pics were ID'ed) and months. My camera time stamps my photos and they all sort out fine up through Sept. October till the present is in one very large folder. Tried again and the app died almost immediately. That was using "Import from folder>naming my whole Home folder>requesting links, not copies." Maybe it has trouble with nested folders? [Google Picasa shows me a complete inventory of every folder (that contains image files) by name with every pic on the drive or at least on the partition. Of course it also struggles with some identification of years.] Of course, I understand that Shotwell is quite new and needing more development.

Oh, I've used Picasa by default for ages, it works great, but gave Shotwell ago a couple months back, and been pleasantly surprised with it. I also do the links, not copies route, no need to double up, especially with the amount of images and galleries i rip.

How long has it been doing this to you? Perhaps completely remove, and re-install it?

[azziam]

Oh, I've used Picasa by default for ages, it works great, but gave Shotwell ago a couple months back, and been pleasantly surprised with it. I also do the links, not copies route, no need to double up, especially with the amount of images and galleries i rip.

How long has it been doing this to you? Perhaps completely remove, and re-install it?

Since yesterday, I guess! I only just heard of it. I could remove and re-install but I'll probably put off the re-install part for a long time. I'm not exactly a google fanboy anymore but good tools are good tools. I keep "Google Sharing" enabled in my browser except when I have to click to disable it so I can access a google group or something.

[sarcastic_bastard]

Oh, I've used Picasa by default for ages, it works great, but gave Shotwell ago a couple months back, and been pleasantly surprised with it. I also do the links, not copies route, no need to double up, especially with the amount of images and galleries i rip.

How long has it been doing this to you? Perhaps completely remove, and re-install it?

Since yesterday, I guess! I only just heard of it. I could remove and re-install but I'll probably put off the re-install part for a long time. I'm not exactly a google fanboy anymore but good tools are good tools. I keep "Google Sharing" enabled in my browser except when I have to click to disable it so I can access a google group or something.

Heh, yeah, I get ya. Handy little extension that one.

You do get that I was referring to re-installing the app, not the OS, right? Not sure if I came across right.