gThumb & Media Readers
Andrew Choens
achoens at frontiernet.net
Sat Dec 18 14:58:30 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 08:57 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> > > Yes. Which version of Fedora are you running? I'm running FC3
>
> Ditto
>
> > > I usually use gthumb for this. I assume your camera has a USB
> > > connection. Somewhere in the settings there could (there was on mine) a
> > > menu setting for the USB connection the camera uses. If it is in PTP
> > > mode, then gnome should find it and mount it as a camera. If not, open
> > > the import dialog and scroll all the way down until you see generic PTP
> > > class camera, and try to connect that way. If that doesn't work see if
> > > you can mount your camera as a usb-hard drive. You'll wind up using
> > > nautilus (or file manager of your choice) to move the files.
>
> I found in the camera to switch it to PTP mode and I was able to get
> gthumb to import the pictures.
>
> I guess a little more experimentation with gthumb will now yield better
> results.
>
> I guess the final question is can I still use a generic location like a
> media reader to import photos?
>
> Say I mount my media reader /dev/sdd1 /media/sonystick will gthumb be
> able to import from there as opposed to only a camera?
>
> Thanks for all the replies.
>
> -=/>Thom
>
>
Yes it can. Check under Go to Preferences -> Removable Storage.
Down at the bottom it should say something about Digital Images. Make
sure this is in the command blank.
gthumb-import %h
If you're lacking this, then that's why you're removable media isn't
working right.
--andy
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