POS ZoomBrowser Crashes

C'Mon Mate... if you ran an old Johnson on 20 CW you'd have a lack of stability and keying... Better to have a more up-to-date Ten-Tec...

Same story in cameras and computers... That doesn't make the Johnson a POS either.

'Tune for maximum smoke...'

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aacmckay wrote in post #2438140
Go out and buy a USB Card reader. They should be too expensive. Take the card out of the camera and put it in the card reader. I've found that this is a lot faster than downloading off the camera directly. Doesn't matter what you have for a computer it will be faster than throught the camera. Plus it has the benefit of not killing your camera's batteries.

This is the best advice. I don't know anybody who uses the pre-packaged software to DOWNLOAD from their cards. Manipulate the images, maybe, but a USB card reader will allow you to get your shots to your PC, then you can do with them as you may.

You can get pretty small USB card readers (like the first one below),which is $10 at Amazon. If your camera uses SD cards, you can get even smaller readers (like the second one, which is $15).

Good luck.

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*I* use the Canon software and cord for downloading... And my wife does the same with her S2. Works great. Why on earth someone whose equipment will work with them... would prefer a slow card reader..baffles me. But, 'different strokes'...

Well, the only card reader I've seen that's slower than my 20D, 5D or A620/USB cable at downloading is an old USB 1.1 that I've had for donkey's years. A USB 2 or CardBus reader will be much faster than the camera/USB cable combo. Plus it doesn't use camera battery life and lets you keep shooting.

That's great, Jon... You know the Old Goat, here ! Happy Ought Seven to you 'n' yourn

283CID wrote in post #2443583
*I* use the Canon software and cord for downloading... And my wife does the same with her S2. Works great. Why on earth someone whose equipment will work with them... would prefer a slow card reader..baffles me. But, 'different strokes'...

Ditto, I plug in my USB cable click one and my pics are downloaded. I find it to be much less than complicated.

The PC doesn't have minumum specs to run XP much less additional memory intensive software. It's probably using the HDD page file anyway. I hate to say it too but you've got all odds against you.

Everything these days is geared towards the.. `Just spend more money mate!' attitude. Well, sorry. But I ain't got it to spend. The old laptops we bought work great for what we need them for. One day I will eventually get a bigger one, but financially it's not a priority now. Until then I'll do the best I can with what I've got. My desktop is only a 900Mhz Duron also. I had issues with it also when I upgraded the drive to a 250Gig'r but we got around that also.

Thanks for the advice on the card reader. I'm not really interested in having to remove the card all the time to read the files. Generally there are only 10-20ish new images at a time when I need to transfer them. So a cable solution is plenty quick enough.

What I liked about the Canon software was it was quick and easy to transfer the files.

You simply plug in the cable and push the blue button on the camera. As they transfer you get to see them full screen as they go through. The software also grouped them by dated directory and only uploads new images.

Past this I don't need any other features or editting ability. So my old laptop should be capable of that easy. it's just finding software to do it. If it exists.

OK, Here's another update.

I downloaded the `Downloader Pro' software. Looks like exactly what I need!.

It will download the pictures and stor them by dated directory.

Now, guess what! The software installs and loads no problem at all. But it doesn't see the camera on the USB port. This is so strange as not only does XP see it no problems at all but the Downloader Pro software, if you go further into the preferences can see the camera, and show the images!

I went back to the Downloader Pro site, but ther eis no contact email address for help.

Any idea's?

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There's a reason they call it Doom Browser.

Register your camera in the Preferences.
Chris Breeze offers several support options on his site, message boards, Faqs, email, etc. Click the support tab: http://www.breezesys.c​om/ I have to admit Chris' products can be a little fiddly to get set up, but they work very well, I have been using BB and DLP for 4 years now.