help me eliminate my final reason to keep using windows
 

I just cant find a decent, functional replacement for the microsoft scanner and camera wizard that works in linux.

can you help??

Welcome to LQ.
I don't know about scanners, but when it comes to your camera, you could use e.g digikam.

btw, on a more light-hearted note, 'wizard' is a rather alien concept in the world of linux;)

http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...lScanners.html

Hello andysheff and welcome to LQ,

scanning is very easy with Linux. I've got my scanner working over the network. It's a PSC-1410 of HP (printer/scanner) and as far as I know, with windows it would not be possible to scan over the network with this gadget. One more reason to go for Linux.

Markus

The thing I'm really looking for is an app that fires up when I plug in a camera or memory card and prompts me where to save the files. At the the same time it asks me what to rename them as, appending a sequential number to each picture.

Any more suggestions?

:-)

Don't you already get a popup and a file folder referencing your files? If not, click on Places->Computer (in Gnome). It's simple enough to just cut and past from that.

If you don't get a popup, you can also look at System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media to see if there is something that needs to be set, there. This assumes gnome, but kde probably has something similar.

Lenny KDE
 

When I plug my camera in I get a Konqueror window with the files in it. I just drag and drop them to where I want. The file names are generated by the camera, the OS just sees it as a USB storage device.

Lots of people use Digikam, but to simply get the files out of the camera you don't need it.

Digikam is very comprehensive and (at least for me) does everything necessary. I never bother with plugging the camera into the computer---I simply plug the memory cards into a reader. In KDE at least i get a dialog asking if I want to download images into Digikam.

Overall, I have found the photo tools, including scanning, to be on a par with Windows. In many cases, they are better.

Sorry, my original post assumes that users of Linux will know what the microsoft scanner and camera wizard does.

I dont have any problems getting pictures out of my camera with Linux and my scanner works fine.

The point is I dont want my pictures to be named by the camera, A0656584 doesnt mean anything to me. In Windows I tell the pop up wizard to download the camera and name them LanzaroteJan2k. It then sequentially renames them LanzaroteJan2k 001 LanzaroteJan2k 002 LanzaroteJan2k 003 etc

I suppose all I really need is multiple/batch file re-namer, however that means a 2 step process, downloading and re-naming. Which in Windows is a 1 step process.

Thanks for your suggestions

:-)

A slight diversion:
People wax eloquent about how to get a Linux system to "be like Windows". To be sure, there are a lot of Windows apps that one might wish to be ported to Linux---but don't hold your breath.

I have found that I am more productive--using a broader variety of tools--than I ever was in Windows. I now ask "How can I best do this in Linux?" and never "How can I do it like Windows?

YMMV