Strange D70 connection problem w/ Mac OS X..

[spartikus]

I hope I'm posting in the correct spot, mods feel free to move it if this isn't deemed "newbie" enough

I run Mac OS X 10.4 on my PowerBook, and quite successfully connect my D70 directly to it. When I first got my camera around 3 weeks ago, I set the camera to PTP, plugged it in and it worked no worries - iPhoto opened up and asked if I wanted to import, and I could access the camera directly through Nikon Capture Control.

However, recently this hasn't been working for me. I'll plug the camera in, turn it on, iPhoto will open up but that's as far as it gets. No asking whether or not I want to import, it doesn't even think an "image device" is connected. If I change to the "Mass Storage" USB option on the camera, it gets mounted as a glorified card reader if you like, but I can't access the camera through NCC.

Sorry for the length of the post, I'm hoping someone can help me! BTW, I'm running the latest version of all the Nikon software, and my camera is running the latest firmware (v2.0).

Cheers

spartikus

[gstark]

What's changed since you started doing this?

As an aside, grab a USB2 card reader and use that to copy images directly from the card instead of using the camera.

It's light years faster.

[Pauld]

Hi Spartikus

I had a similar problem with OS 10.3.9 but the camera would not even mount as a card reader.

Does NCC give you an error something like it can't find a camera when you try to run it with the camera connected?

I restarted a couple of times which seem to fix the problem. I know this is not very scientific but it worked.

[spartikus]

Thanks for the suggestions guys; what I think the problem was related to my user account having basically no administrator privileges, for one reason or another they had been altered. When logged in as admin, everything was fine! So I've created a new account and all seems well..

As an aside, grab a USB2 card reader and use that to copy images directly from the card instead of using the camera.

Already got one, got _very_ sick of waiting for all my NEFs to get sucked across, all I wanted was to fiddle with custom curves in NCC..

Speaking of which..

Cheers

spartikus [/quote]

[robboh]

You shouldnt need an admin account for this to work. Im sitting here with a normal user account and all working fine. Unless you mean you tested with the admin acc, that worked, so you created another normal user?

Sounds to me that it was having problems reading the file system on the card properly. You possibly formatted the card using Disk Utility, rather than in-camera?? Could also have been a messed up prefs file.

Definitely agree that a USB2 card reader is a FAR better method anyways!