My Mac doesn't recognize my Fuji X100F camera: when attached, it doesn't show up in finder. But Photos sees it.
It is on the 'supported camera list'.
I'm trying to avoid the time-wasting complications of having to import via Photos, and export from Photos to a folder where I can work with it directly.
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
I will assume that you have visited Finder Preferences : General and checked off every device to appear on your Desktop. 🧐
Have you disconnected and reconnected the camera connection, or replaced the cable? Have you rebooted with the camera attached to see if it is a temporary recognition issue?
If you can get the camera displayed on the Desktop, consider that Apple's Image Capture will use the EXIF DateTimeOriginal in the photo as the filesystem creation date, and other methods of extracting images from the camera may let the operating system put the current date/time on the image. For some, this matters, and for others it does not. FYI.
Appreciate the thoughts. No amount of checking and unchecking in Finder Preferences makes the camera show up on the desktop.
Cable works, because Photos can see the camera. It's just not showing up on the desktop or in Finder.
And: I think I've answered my own question, because my other camera won't show up on the desktop either (different camera, cable, manufacturer). Apple has killed this form of access to cameras via Finder. Not sure when I happened, but my older Mac still running High Sierra can't access the cameras via Finder windows either.
Hi, welcome the the Apple User Community forum.
Not sure if your camera uses a card for storage, if it does you might just want to remove the card from it and plug it into your Macbook card reader.
Hope this helps.
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My Mac doesn't recognize my Fuji X100F camera: when attached, it doesn't show up in finder. But Photos sees it.
It is on the 'supported camera list' for Mojave.
I'm trying to avoid the time-wasting complications of having to import via Photos, and export from Photos to a folder where I can work with it directly.
Is this Apple again channelizing things and forcing Photos for everything?
Why would Photos recognize the supported camera, but not MacOS?
Actually, this is an older MBP that has a card reader that does not recognize modern larger-storage cards. I'm not looking for a way around the problem, because I do already have a card reader, and I can use that or Photos app when needed; my question is whether Apple has blocked access to cameras in Finder.
I do appreciated the good intentions, and those suggestions may help someone else with a similar problem who doesn't have quite the same question I do.
I guess you have newer MacBook Pro where there is no SD card reader. Earlier Model of MacBook Pro had SD card Reader which was the easiest way to transfer simply plugin the SD card and copy to any location.
Suggestion, you have a camera that supports Wifi transfer that should allow you to just copy to a default location on Macbook pro.
I hope this guide should be able to help you how to setup and use:
http://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x100f/connection/wireless/index.html#
MacOS won't display attached camera in Finder
