On May 1, 2005, at 1:58 AM, Sionnach Aisling wrote:
Hector I. Macedo "Lord of the Flies"Hello.
I am new to the list. I've been using Macs for a long time, althoughnot so much in recent years ;-) I'm much better on pre-OS X problems. I was on the Powerbooks list for awhile and still maintain and frequently use my PB3400 as well as a Sonnet upgraded 7300 and a few other Macs I have sitting around.
This post, however, is about my wife's iBook G4 - a bit more on topic ;-)
Anyway, I was hoping maybe someone could help me out with a small problem.
Like I said, my wife has a iBook G4 running OS 10.3.9. She is also running iPhoto 2.0.1 and has been using a Pentax Optio S4 digital camera for over a year with absolutely no trouble. (Although, I realized tonight that Pentax cameras are not listed on Apples "supported" list.)
Tonight, after taking a few photos, she went to import them into iPhoto. She turned off her camera, plugged in the USB cable, opened iPhoto and then turned the Camera back on - just as she's done hundreds of times in the past. This time, however, it didn't work. It basically doesn't see that any camera is connected. Also, where usually she would get an "untitled" disk on her desktop when the camera mounted, she gets nothing... it doesn't know the camera exists.
I had her try both USB ports and got the same result. I had her try a freshly formatted SD card in teh camera but it made no difference. The camera will beep when it is plugged/unplugged from teh USB as if it's detecting a power source. I had her try attaching her Palm cradle to one of the ports and she successfully did a hotsynch, so i know the ports are working.
Her best friend uses an iBook G3 running 10.3.9 with iPhoto 2.0.1 nad she happened to be there. We connected the camera to her machine and it instantly imported the photos - no problem at all. So I am certain it is not her camera nor her USB cable.
I have a USB drive that utilizes SD cards for it's data source. I put her SD card from her camera in it and plugged it into her iBook. Nothing. It wouldn't mount it or recognize it. It's power light did illuminate when it was connected, however. I took the same drive with the same card and plugged it into her friends iBook G3 and instantly, iPhoto opened and it started transferring files...
Anyother thoughts on things I can try to get this working? It's very frustrating.
On a side note, I noticed that iPhoto shows it's latest version to be 5.0.2 and there are update links on the website for both 4.0.3 and 5.0.2. She has never been given an option of updating her iPhoto in any of her routine updates. She tried downloading these updates tonight to see if it would help (although i doubt it, since it won't even mount the device to the desktop), but when running the iPhoto 4.0.3 update she gets a message stating it cannot be installed because neither iPhoto 4 nor iPhoto 4.0.1 can be found. (Which is true since she is running 2.0.1) Should she update her iPhoto version? And how can she go about updating from 2.0.1??
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer on this. Again, I'm not real OS X savy, but hope to pickup a lot more :-) My background is extensive in hardware, however, and I do have quite a bit of mac experience both with notebooks and desktops, so I look forward to being able to contribute where I can as well.
Thanks for reading, Sionnach
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