Digital photo frame woes

sloughflint

Thread not worth reading. Individual problem now resolved thanks to helpful posters.

fwor

Do you know the make and model?

Does it have a slot for a memory card or a USB (or mini-USB) socket?

fwor

Difficult to say without knowing the exact model, but it ~probably~ doesn't have any (or much) built-in memory, so you're probably expected to leave the memory card or pendrive in it.

When you power it on it should automatically search the pendrive for JPGs and display them.

fwor

sloughflint wrote: »

So have to purchase storage then? What a nuisance.

Inconvenient, but SD cards of huge size are so cheap these days it shouldn't hit your pocket too hard.

I don't follow how the camera fits into this, nor what cables or cardreaders you have.

If the camera and photo frame both have USB cables, you should be able to plug both into your PC and they will each appear as mass storage devices. You can simply copy and paste pictures from camera card to the frames pendrive (or vice versa). You don't need to copy them to the PC first.

Alternatively if you have a cardreader, put the camera card in that, plug it and the pendrive into the PC and do the same.

[edit - just read your reply: Try plugging the photo frame into your PC via USB without the pendrive installed and you should see its internal memory as a mass storage device. Copy and paste into that.]

iviv

The camera should have come with a usb lead to get the pics off. Post the camera model, and hopefully we should be able to find the cable, should only be a couple of quid assuming that its one of the generic cables.

fwor

Ok - if you have no USB leads then you need to get an all-in-one card reader (or at least one that is compatible with your camera's card). They typically cost around a fiver or so from Ebuyer, 7dayshop, mymemory, etc.

If you're lucky it will come with a USB cable that also fits both your camera and the photo frame, giving you more options.

Although if you have no USB cables nor card reader I can't figure out how you got the photos from camera to PC in the first place...

niccy

HIYA

i think you want to COPY piccys ( not MOVE ) this way you will keep set on camera

also try taking the pen drive out of the frame and see if any piccys left in memory

Idiophreak

It's highly worth you getting a multicard reader anyway - makes getting photos on and off of the camera really easy...so pick one of these up cheap, buy a 1/2gb SD card (will get change from a fiver amazingly) and it'll be an easy job...

edit: or actually, thinking about it, if it's reading from a pen drive OK, why not just buy a little pen drive you can give them along with the frame?

fwor

Hmmm... Don't think it could be F/w one end and USB the other - they are completely different standards! Are you sure it's not just mini-USB at the camera end?

When the camera is plugged in and powered on, does it not appear as a device in My Computer?

[edit: I've never seen a camera where transfer is only one way, though the software that typically comes bundled with a camera will often make it appear as though it is.]

Idiophreak

sloughflint wrote: »

I'm letting myself down badly here. I say firewire because that's the slot that it looks like to me at the camera end. ( much smaller than USB slot)Would rather not have to go to the loft and dig out the instruction manual and check.Am probably calling it the wrong thing.
Definitely USB other end that I connect to PC to download the pictures and then empty the SD stick.

Mini USB plugs look very much like firewire ones to the "untrained eye" but they're not the same.

You won't have firewire on one end and USB on the other...this is just a standard USB cable...

fwor

If you double-click on it, you should see the contents of the card.

You can copy and paste to and from it.

Check the photo frame to see if it also has a mini-USB socket.