[PLUG] Trying to get photos off my usb camera card reader.

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 01 January 2006 08:52, Lee Jamieson wrote:
> I'm using Xandros and I am trying to get my camera pictures off my XD
> card.  I have a USB card reader and I can't seem to find the card
> itself.

Please paste the results of these (may have to do some or all as root):

lsusb

lsmod

ls /dev/sd*

mount

HotPlug should be doing all of this for you, but the (100% manual) 
procedure is (as root):

(plug in device)
modprobe usb-storage
mount /dev/sda1 /path/to/somewhere
(read/write from /path/to/somewhere)
umount /dev/sda1
sync
(unplug device)

If you're interested, I have a BASH script which looks first for some 
known cameras and if found does a PTP transfer from them, else looks 
for known card-readers and if found copies the JPEGs/MPGs/MOVs from 
them.

The end result is images named dscYYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_NN.jpg (NN being the 
serial number, the dates being taken form the EXIF information in the 
images) in one subdirectory named YYYYMMDDX/ (the X being nothing for 
the first download in a day, "a" for the second, "b" for the third, and 
so on.

Cheers; Leon

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