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Pictures from my digital camera

Hey, was wondering how i would be able to see and upload photos from my digital camera onto facebook and/or the comp itself? Im not sure how to find them because of course on windows it just automatically loads the window. Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

You have to install a program to do it. If you want specific advice, give us a clue of what distro and Desktop Environment you're using.

Hey, its debian, not sure exactly what version because its not actually my comp, its from a stupid hostel, but yeh not sure about anymore information since of course i have been denied access so if any advice could be given sweet, if not thanks anyways. And yeah if i have to install a program i guess i'm sol.

the EASIEST way to do it with out hunting for the software to do it, is buy one of those flash readers:

http://www.pictureline.com/products/....0_CF_Reader/#

then you can just use it like a thumb drive. They come in all shapes and sizes, anything USB should work.

To use:

1. Put your camera's memory card into the reader
2. Plug the reader into the computer
3. type "dmesg" in a console until you see something like this:

Code:

usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 32

usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

scsi25 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

usb-storage: device found at 32

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

scsi 25:0:0:0: Direct-Access    SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  2.18 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

SCSI device sdc: 4013713 512-byte hdwr sectors (2055 MB)

sdc: Write Protect is off

sdc: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00

sdc: assuming drive cache: write through

SCSI device sdc: 4013713 512-byte hdwr sectors (2055 MB)

sdc: Write Protect is off

sdc: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00

sdc: assuming drive cache: write through

 sdc: sdc1

sd 25:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc

sd 25:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

usb-storage: device scan complete

The "sdc1" is what you are looking for. It may be sda1, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1, etc.
4. make a folder to mount it to, mkdir camera
5. Mount it mount /dev/sdc1 camera replace sdc1 with what you see above (sda1, etc)
6. cd into camera cd camera and list the contents ls you should see all the pictures!
7. When you are done, make sure to exit from the directory and do a umount camera before unpluging

Just wondering if you notice anything happening on your desktop when you plug the camera in?
Maybe an icon that says something like xyz Removable Media?
If not, you can go look in the computers filesystem. The camera could be under /mnt or /media/usbdisk
If you aren't sure then look at the file /etc/fstab and it should tell you where the usb mounts a usb-type device.
Then you can treat the .jpg images as you would any other... Gimp is OpenSouce and pretty useful...
(I always wondered why anybody would go and buy a device like a flash reader...)

Oh, and oh yes, and as jaykup said, after the icon appears on your desktop it is highly recommended to "unmount the device" before unplugging it. :-)