WIA event to open folder with explorer (or other)

[acm200noAddie]

if I right click , Properties on the camera while it's powered and plugged into USB, I can
chose from a few WIA events. All of the automagic offerings are fumbly or worse, so i now
have WIA do nothing at connection.

From among those offerings, I can choose a folder for the Win 'wizard' to dump to. This is
minimal, but not so useful.

I'd MUCH RATHER have the atuomagic do what i do manually: open the camera and my
pic dump folder in two regular explorer windows. that's all. pretty basic.

I don't find the info by Googling.

is there any way to break into the WIA events?


using canon s2000 (circa 2003) and WIn Xp sp2

 

[Graham Holden]

if I right click , Properties on the camera while it's powered and plugged into USB, I can
chose from a few WIA events. All of the automagic offerings are fumbly or worse, so i now
have WIA do nothing at connection.

From among those offerings, I can choose a folder for the Win 'wizard' to dump to. This is
minimal, but not so useful.

I'd MUCH RATHER have the atuomagic do what i do manually: open the camera and my
pic dump folder in two regular explorer windows. that's all. pretty basic.

I don't find the info by Googling.

is there any way to break into the WIA events?


using canon s2000 (circa 2003) and WIn Xp sp2

I just use a CF card-reader to transfer, so I'm not in a position to test
this, but you could try creating a batch file on your desktop that has the
following in:

start c:\directory\where\i\dump\my\photos
wiaacmgr

'wiaacmgr' seems to be the program that tries to talk to the camera. If
this sort-of-works but leaves a black command-prompt window on screen while
the camera's being accessed, try changing the second line to:

start /nowait wiaacmgr

HTH.

Regards,
Graham Holden (g-holden AT dircon DOT co DOT uk)