nathan meyers wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:54:51AM -0400, dan moylan wrote: >> >> in yesteryear, when i plugged a camera into my computer, the >> camera files would show up under /mnt, then later under >> /media, then under ~/.gvfs. now, however, they show up in >> one of those "drag and drop" windows (whatever they're >> called), but where are they? i see NIKON... at the top of >> the window and a directory DCIM in the window. >> >> "find / -name DCIM" produces nothing. >> >> ok -- so exactly where is DCIM?
> I don't think it's mounted in a filesystem namespace (although perhaps > could be with the right incantations). If you navigate into DCIM through > the GUI, though, you'll find your images. You can use menus in the GUI to > open another window into your filesystem, giving you a useful drag/drop > destination for images you want to copy onto your filesystem. thanks, got that, i had already imported the files via drag and drop (cumbersome). what i really would like are the right incantations. there ought to be some way just to mount the camera memory (the way i used to be done). i know there's someone out there thinking they're making it easy, but i have a hard time not saying bad words. bill ricker writes: > find may avoid crossing filesys. > do > df > or > mount > before and after to see where it's mounting. did both -- no differences except for a 4K size increase in /run. ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) j...@moylan.us www.moylan.us [death to html bloat!] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss