Camera's stuck "scanning..."

[Corey Kinard]

Hello,

I am trying out Rapid Photo Downloader on Fedora 18 {Spherical Cow) and I'm having no luck getting the program to find images. I have tried both a Canon A1200 and a Nikon Coolpix S8100 and while detected, the program stays "scanning..." without any progress. For a test I made sure that the Canon only had 2 pictures on it to see if that would help, it didn't.

What's strange is that Shotwell will recognize and download the photos without any problems. Any ideas why this would be happening?

Thanks,
Corey Kinard

[Damon Lynch (dlynch3)]

Hi Corey,

Thanks for your bug report. I recommend using a card reader and downloading directly from the memory card, bypassing the camera entirely. That will work. If that's not possible, and you still want to use Rapid Photo Downloader, you can use Nautilus to manually copy the files to your computer and then use Rapid Photo Downloader to "download" from the directory you copied them into.

The reason why Shotwell works is because the team behind it took the time to write their own code that wraps about libgphoto2. I have not created an equivalent wrapper in python, and when I last checked no one else had either. Instead I've relied on Gnome libraries, which have at best been unreliable. Most of the time they simply don't work properly, as you've seen.

Best,
Damon

[Corey Kinard (jaidek)]

Hey Damon,

Thanks for the quick response, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately I won't be able to use a card reader as I am doing something a bit unconventional. I have created a 10 camera photogrammetry rig (soon to be 30) to create 3d model of people's faces. My current bottleneck is getting all of the images off each camera and organize into directories. I was really hoping that Rapid Photo Downloader would do the trick.

Do you happen to know any other utility that might do what I am looking for. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Corey

Sent from my iPhone

On May 21, 2013, at 9:04 PM, Damon Lynch <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Corey,
>
> Thanks for your bug report. I recommend using a card reader and
> downloading directly from the memory card, bypassing the camera
> entirely. That will work. If that's not possible, and you still want to
> use Rapid Photo Downloader, you can use Nautilus to manually copy the
> files to your computer and then use Rapid Photo Downloader to "download"
> from the directory you copied them into.
>
> The reason why Shotwell works is because the team behind it took the
> time to write their own code that wraps about libgphoto2. I have not
> created an equivalent wrapper in python, and when I last checked no one
> else had either. Instead I've relied on Gnome libraries, which have at
> best been unreliable. Most of the time they simply don't work properly,
> as you've seen.
>
> Best,
> Damon
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1182502
>
> Title:
> Camera's stuck "scanning..."
>
> Status in Rapid Photo Downloader:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying out Rapid Photo Downloader on Fedora 18 {Spherical Cow)
> and I'm having no luck getting the program to find images. I have
> tried both a Canon A1200 and a Nikon Coolpix S8100 and while detected,
> the program stays "scanning..." without any progress. For a test I
> made sure that the Canon only had 2 pictures on it to see if that
> would help, it didn't.
>
> What's strange is that Shotwell will recognize and download the photos
> without any problems. Any ideas why this would be happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Corey Kinard
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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[Damon Lynch (dlynch3)]

When you mount a camera, does anything show up in ~/.gvfs ?

Keep in mind that libgphoto2 may only work well when one instance at a time
is running (according to a Shotwell developer, in any case). So downloading
from several cameras at the same time might cause problems.
<http://www.damonlynch.net>

[Corey Kinard (jaidek)]

Hey Damon,

I rolled back to Fedora 17 (after seeing the note about problems with 18) and tried the cameras again. In Fedora 17 I no longer get "Scanning..." now it is just 0 photos found. I checked to see if anything showed up with ~/.gvfs but no cameras were listed.

Even on windows, these cameras don't mount as drives. Might be out of luck huh?

Thanks again for the help,
Corey