Hi all. I have a Canon Powershot SD550 Digital Elph and have come upon a problem. A few weeks ago, it stopped being recognized in iPhoto. I was at a car show and completely filled up my 512 MB card with pictures. When I came home, iPhoto would not recognize it. If I went into Image Capture, it said there was no camera attached. I brought it over to my friend and his Mini was unable to connect to it either. His Dell gave some message about the volume being damaged. We tried plugging it into his card reader and the same thing happened. We then put my memory card into his older Canon camera and it was recognized just fine. I was able to get all the pictures off through his camera. I have reformated the card from within my camera and have reset all settings to default. I still can't get iPhoto to recognize it. Anyone have any suggestions? I got it for Christmas and it connected to my Powerbook perfectly until now.
Quad G5: 3GB ram,810GB+Raptor 36GB total HD,7800GT,BT,AE, 20" Cinema, Saffire,
Mac OS X (10.4.5),
Powerbook 12": 1.12GB,60GB,SD,AE,BT.Dual 867 MDD loaded.1st+3rd gen iPods,iSight
I have a similair problem with my Canon PowerShot A95, iPhoto and the new iMac don't see it at all. I just bought a new iMac Core Duo, upgrading from an old iMac (iLamp style). iPhoto works as expected on old computer. Any ideas?
I would try running OnyX to clean out the user and system caches and run the Maintenance scripts and reinstall the 10.4.5 COMBO updater followed by a repair of disk permissions.
I have a feeling it might be the camera's usb port. I e-mailed Canon about warranty service. The camera is not seen by any of my computers using iPhoto or the Canon software. The memory card works in another camera so it sounds like the usb port. We'll see what they say.
That very well might be it. If you have a card reader you can get around it in the future. I use a FW card reader and was able to upload 196 files, 2MB each, in under 30 seconds. Saves wear and tear on the camera's battery (as well as the USB port).
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