Canon Lide 30 Trouble Fix

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Canon Lide 30 Trouble Fix

Wanted to share this solution as we COULD NOT scan to Image Capture or Canoscan Toolbox 5, on Leopard, with our old Canon Lide 30 scanner.

We did find an old version of Canoscan Toolbox X (4.1.3) and IT WORKED like a charm with Leopard. We scanned 100 photos into JPEGs using the toolbox alone.

Don't know where you can find a scan of toolbox x 4.1.3 online, but if I find it, I'll addend a link.

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Feb 29, 2008 9:21 AM

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Feb 29, 2008 9:29 AM in response to medvecky91

Here's a link to the Canoscan version mentioned above.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16292&mode=feedback&vid=84900

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Mar 23, 2008 11:52 AM in response to medvecky91

Thank you so much. Several topics that came up when I googled the scanner declared that Canon Lide 30 with MacOS 10x was a dead-end trip. Following are more explicit instructions for newer Mac users.
1) make sure that users have read/write permissions in Macintosh HD/Library/CFMSupport (find this folder and command-I it to change permissions) Found this tidbit on another website.
2) download the Canon scan toolbox http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16292&mode=feedback&vid=84900
3) unstuff it. You might need to download StuffitExpander to do this.
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffitexpander/download.html
4) Finish the Canon toolbox installation
5) Download the most recent driver for Lide 30 from Canon's website. (this might change so log on yourself.)
I did not try the latest version of toolbox after I corrected the read/write permissions so, perhaps, Canon has fixed this. Who knows?
I have been able to scan everything I have wanted so far. Thanks again.
BTW: I changed to the iMac from HP & Vista because I was unable to use much of my computer investments after my XP system was stolen. I have been able to use my Palm Zire 71, my Canon Lide 30 scanner, a plethora of software unsupported on Vista. So far everything has been either directly on the iMac or supported via VMFusion and XP on the iMac. Truly an awesome experience.

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