Cannot get my Minolta digital camera to be recognized properly

According to the iPhoto page your camera is not compatible:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/cameras.html

So you may just need to open iPhoto and manually drag the photos into your library.

Have you contacted Minolta support?

You can name your camera's disk so the "NO_NAME" part will be something like "Camera". To do this, select the camera disk and press (at the same time)command (applekey)-i which brings up the infowindow. You can rename your camera disk there.

Another cool thing is to assign your camera a custom icon, if you want to do it I will tell you. I have mine set to be a camera.

I suggest ignoring applications in both Maac aand XP and copying your pictures directly from Finder. When it mounts the camera disk, navigate to the pictures folder and drag it to your desktop and the entire folder will be copied. You can then open the folder in whatever application you want, I use GraphicConverter.

Lastly, some cameras have a menu setup setting for disk usage. You might explore your camera's menu and look for a setting to tell it to "act like a data disk". Windows has a proprietary system for integrating camera disks but that system is not shared with Apple. Use the "Data Disk" option to bypass Micro$oft's sabotage of your camera