Transferring images back to your digital camera

[Guest]

Hi there,

I have transferred some images to my computer, but i want to copy some back
onto the camera, so that i can get them printed off professionally at Boots.
The thing is i cant work out how to do it, so i was looking for any
suggestions.

Thanks

Holly

 

[Yves Alarie]

Connect your camera with a memory card in it and wait for XP to recognize
it.
Open My Computer and look under Devices with removable storage. Your camera
will be listed there as a removable drive and a letter will be assigned to
it.
Select the photos you want to copy. Use Copy to and then browse to select
your camera drive letter for the destination.

Note: if you changed the name of the files or if you edited the photos, the
camera will not be able to read the files on the card. However, Boots should
be able to.

The other way is to copy the photos to a CD-R or CD-RW, if Boots will accept
such.

 

[Guest]

I've tried everything i can do to get pictures back onto my Sony Digital
Camera but cannot find a way to do this. The copy/paste method does not
work, it does not allow transfer back to the camera. Note: The camera is
listed under my computer just as the sony camera and does not have a drive
letter associated with it. Any other ideas?

 

[Yves Alarie]

I don't think the Copy/Paste works with a camera memory card like it does
on a hard drive to another folder because the file type are different, but
since your camera is listed under My Computer, select the files to be copied
and then look at the menu on the left under File and Folder Tasks and select
Copy to. A window will open for you to browse and you should be able to find
the camera and select it. Once there, double click on the camera name and
you will see the folder DCIM, double click on it to see another folder (this
is the folder containing your picture files on the card and in order to see
this folder, and even the DCIM folder, you must have one photo file on the
card) and now you click on Copy.
I used to do this on a Sony S70. I gave it to my daughter so I can't try
this again but I just tried it on a Minolta A1 and it works perfectly well.
I not. let us know.

 

[Guest]

Hi there.

Thanks for the advice, however i did what you said, and i managed to copy
the pictures back onto the camera storage on the computer, but i cannot see
the pictures that i have transferred back when i turn my camera on and try to
see them on there.

Do you think thay will still be on the memory card.

Holly

 

[Guest]

No Soup, it will not open the camera files. I used to be able to exchange
files back and forth when i was operating my old computer running Win 98 se,
but XP does not want to play nice. There has to be someway to "trick" XP and
let this happen. Any other ideas?

Thanks, Joe

 

[Yves Alarie]

The files are there, but the camera will not open them (display them on the
LCD) if you did:
1. You changed the name of the files from the original names used by the
camera.
2. You edited the photos with some software.

Try the same procedure, but use a file newly copied to your hard drive and
no editing, or if you have what you know to be original files with original
file names on your hard drive, use one of them. Your camera will display it.
The computer in your camera is capable of reading files created by it only
if they have the same 8 characters file name that cameras uses and file
structure that it uses when saving as JPG, TIFF or RAW.

This being said, you can read modified original files that you just copied
on your memory card with a computer. For example, place this card in a USB
card reader connected to your computer and you will be able to open the
files. This is how the photo printing shops will read the card. When doing
so, it does not matter if the files on the card are original photo files
from the camera or edited photo files.

 

[Yves Alarie]

I am not sure what you are trying to tell us here.
"No soup, it will not open the camera files". What is it that you are using
to open the camera files?

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry, i was just saying that your methods are not working. Win xp will
not let me transfer the .jpg files back to the memory stick no matter what
method i try. Every time i select the device i'm trying to copy the files
to, for example - "Sony Digital Camera" - it tells me that it cannot transfer
files to that location. I used to run Win 98 SE and this was never a problem
to transfer files back and forth to the memory stick. Win XP does not treat
the connection to the camera as another type of drive to which you can write
files to. What i'm wondering is, is there someway to trick Win XP into
treating this camera connection just as a type of external drive like Win 98
used to do?

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Yves Alarie]

Must be something wrong. Using XP, I copy files (all kinds of files, not
only photo files) to a card reader in my camera. To make sure your card is
ready, format the card using the camera to format it. Once formatted, take
one picture (this is usually not necessary but just do it). Then:
1. Open My Computer
2. Open the folder containing the files you want to copy
3. Select the file(s) you want to copy
4. Look at the menu on the left and click on the Copy to command listed
under Files and Folder Tasks.
5. A window will open, browse to your listed camera and you can click on
Copy (this will copy on the card) or click on the DCIM folder and then the
photo folder and click on Copy (this will copy in this folder).
6. Copying will start. When copying is done
8. Open the card, the files should be listed.

Following the above steps, tell me when things go wrong.

 

[Yves Alarie]

One more step.
9. After you see the files copied to your card, double click on one of them.
XP will open it.

 

[Guest]

ok, here's what happens when i try that:
As you instructed i took a picture of my dog just to have a photo in the
camera memory. I go to the folder where the file is i want to transfer back
onto the camera, I click on the file once to select it and then from the Edit
menu at the top of the screen i select the "Copy to..." option. At this
point it then gives a new window where i can select where i want the file to
go. As soon as i click on the "Sony Digital Still Camera", the copy button
becoomes "grayed out" and i can not click on it. There is no "+" next to the
the camera so i can't expand the file structure to even see the DCIM dolder
or the contents in general.
I know these are not the exact instructions you have given me but they are
essentially the same, the reason i do this this way is because i am using
"Classic Windows Styling" instead of the standard XP interface. Any other
ideas?

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Yves Alarie]

Sorry, "essentially the same" is not "the same".
I have already posted above that the Copy/Paste option will not work, for
the simple reason that the XP file structure on your hard drive is not the
same as the file structure used on a camera. If you do not want to follow
instructions, there is not much more I can do.

 

[Guest]

Just so you know, i'm not trying to be difficult and i'm not just some
regular home computer user who doesn't know a thing about pcs - i work for a
software company and deal with them every day. Now, with that said, i reset
my XP interface to the original factory settings and i followed your
directions exactly as you have stated in your previous email.........to no
avail. I still can't copy the file to the camera. It does the same thing as
my "essentially the same" method. And for future reference, you may want to
check your technique because clicking "Copy to " on the left side of the
screen under "File and Folder Tasks" is the same thing as Copy/paste, whether
you're right clicking and selecting copy, hitting Ctrl + C, or selecting it
from the Edit menu, its the same thing. The camera just will not accept any
files written to it. Thanks you for your help, i'm going to research the
Windows KB and/or contact the manufacturer of the camera.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Yves Alarie]

Tell me what happens when you click on "Copy to"

Just so you know, i'm not trying to be difficult and i'm not just some
regular home computer user who doesn't know a thing about pcs - i work for a
software company and deal with them every day. Now, with that said, i reset
my XP interface to the original factory settings and i followed your
directions exactly as you have stated in your previous email.........to no
avail. I still can't copy the file to the camera. It does the same thing as
my "essentially the same" method. And for future reference, you may want to
check your technique because clicking "Copy to " on the left side of the
screen under "File and Folder Tasks" is the same thing as Copy/paste, whether
you're right clicking and selecting copy, hitting Ctrl + C, or selecting it
from the Edit menu, its the same thing. The camera just will not accept any
files written to it. Thanks you for your help, i'm going to research the
Windows KB and/or contact the manufacturer of the camera.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Guest]

When you click on "copy to" it copies the file and brings up the new window
which displays all of the folder contents of the computer. In that window it
shows in descending order DEsktop, My Documents, My Computer (expanded), C:
drive, D: Drive, Shared documents, Sony Digital Still Camera, and so
on....... Every directory that is displayed in this window has the "+" next
to it to expand the contents of that folder, except the Sony Digital Still
Camera. There is no "+" to expand the contents of this folder even though it
does have the DCIM folder in there with a picture file of my printer. When i
select the Sony Digital Still Camera, the copy button that is displayed at
the bottom of window to execute the command becomes inactive. It simply will
not let you do this via this method, nor any other method i've tried. Like i
said before, i'm going to search the KB for an answer, thanks for your help.

Joe

 

[Yves Alarie]

There is no "+" to expand the content of the DCIM folder. You open it by
double clicking on it. You see the next folder. Double click on it to open
it. You should now see the picture files on the card. Now see if the copy
button is active.