Import photos from SD card into iPhoto

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Import photos from SD card into iPhoto

Santa gave my wife a new camera for Christmas and I am trying to load photos from the SD card using the SanDISK MicroMate (plugs into USB port) that came with the card. My daughter also got a camera, a Digital Blue Disney micro that uses a cable to attach to the USB port. Neither will show up in iPhoto, Image Capture, Windows Media Player, or in a finder window. Both do show up (with correct information as far as I can tell) in the Apple System Profiler. The Digital Blue website states that they do not have Mac software, but that Mac users can plug in to the USB and drag and drop as a "mass storage device". With our old camera, I used a compact flash (CF) with a compact flash reader that plugged into the USB port and never had any problems. The CF always showed up in iPhoto and the finder windows. Any ideas out there. I will probably be upgrading to a 2.4 GHz iMac soon, but would like to solve this before that happens. Thanks for your help.
Scott

G4 733 MHz, Mac OS X (10.2.x), 256 MB RAM

Posted on Jan 1, 2008 7:11 PM

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Answer 1

Brie Fly

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Jan 1, 2008 7:48 PM in response to MOE Scooter

You'll probably need to go to the SanDISK website to see if they have Mac drivers. The Disney camera is a toy and wouldn't give you any useful images, even if you could download them -- max size on the screen around 3-inches, and postage stamp sized when printed at 300dpi.

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MOE Scooter Author

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Jan 5, 2008 9:32 AM in response to Brie Fly

The SanDisk website has a PDF owner's guide that says the following;

Macintosh Disk Icons: When you connect the MicroMate Reader/Writer on a Macintosh operating system, a removable disk icon labeled
“untitled” representing the MicroMate Reader/Writer will show on the desktop when a card is inserted.

It also has directions to drag the removable disk icon labeled “untitled” to the trash to remove the disk. There is also a support link to a ebox page on a secure site that won't let me go farther (I think I need a newer browser), so I can't find drivers.

My problem is that the icon doesn't show up and I can't find it in any applications I try. I know the Disney camera is a toy, its for my 5 year old, but I am having the identical problem with both the Disney camera and SanDisk.

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Answer 3

Brie Fly

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Jan 5, 2008 1:27 PM in response to MOE Scooter

Click once on the desktop, then go to Finder >Preferences. In the "General" tab, make sure that the top two check boxes under "Show these items on the Desktop" are checked.

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MOE Scooter Author

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Jan 8, 2008 5:25 PM in response to Brie Fly

They are both checked already (so is servers).

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Answer 5

pjm361

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Mar 26, 2008 12:16 AM in response to MOE Scooter

I'm having the same problem. Both of my smartmedia cards won't show up on the desktop using a Zio reader. Also tried plugging it in directly to an Epson R380 but, it says there is no card. They both used to work fine, I also tried at the store using a Kodak machine to make sure it wasn't the Zio smartmedia reader. I thought there was something wrong with the camera because the pictures show up on it but no where else. Today I tried my brothers laptop which is running windows XP and they worked! Anyone have any ideas. The camera is a Olympus D490. I've got iPhoto 5, Thanks

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