Olympus camera
My old C-3030 Olympus is not recognized by iPhoto when connected. How can I import my photos?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Try image capture (in your applications folder) or a card reader - once you get the photos off the camera use the camera's format command to erase and reformat the memory card
a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and the reformat the card -- I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
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