Thanks, Erik and others. It didn't occur to me to check the camera menus, so I'll do that first off. I'll also look into the /dev and dmesg when I get home tonight. Mike On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Erik Anderson wrote: > This is odd - if configured correctly, the camera should just appear as > a standard usb mass storage device (/dev/sdb1 or something similar). I > seem to remember a few Canons I've had having two options in their usb > setup. If one option was selected, it showed up as a mass storage device > and the second, it showed up as, well, something else (I can't recall > atm). Poke around in the camera's menu system to see if you cand find > anything like this. > > What does dmesg say when you connect the device? That should tell you > what type of usb device it's presenting itself as. Also, depending on > how the device identifies itself when connected, you may be able to > create a persistent udev rule so that it always assigns the same device > node. > > -Erik > > On 12/13/09, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: >> My camera is made by Canon. It seems like most devices are easier to work >> with than this. Both on Windows and Ubuntu the camera is somewhat hidden >> when I attach it to the USB port. I did find the mount point here: >> >> ~/.gvfs/gphoto2 mount on usb%3A001,004/ >> >> With the JPEG files in this subdirectory: >> >> ~/.gvfs/gphoto2 mount on usb%3A001,004/DCIM/100CANON >> >> The annoying thing is that every time I attach the camera it increments >> the number at the end of the directory name, like so: >> >> ~/.gvfs/gphoto2 mount on usb%3A001,004/ >> ~/.gvfs/gphoto2 mount on usb%3A001,005/ >> ~/.gvfs/gphoto2 mount on usb%3A001,006/ >> ~/.gvfs/gphoto2 mount on usb%3A001,007/ >> >> To me this looks like a pointless annoyance that almost certainly is >> caused by some kind of software in the camera. It would be nice if I >> could make it always be the same mount point. Any ideas? >> >> Otherwise, I guess this will always work to copy the files into the >> default directory: >> >> cp -p ~/.gvfs/gphoto2*/DCIM/100CANON/*.{JPG,AVI} . >> >> I could write a little script or alias for that. I haven't bothered to >> look into the f-spot program that Ubuntu wants to automatically handle the >> photos. Anyone using that and liking it? >> >> Best, >> Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > -- > Erik Anderson > http://andersonfam.org > Please note that I am using a new email address. My old email address @taxa.epi.umn.edu, will stop working because that old computer is being retired.