no photo upload

Hello, this is my first time here so please excuse if I have posted in the wrong place. I hope I can receive some help with my problem.

I have just bought a new PC with Windows 7 installed. My previous PC had XP. I am an avid hillwalker and photo taker (Scottish Highlands) so this is pretty serious to me. I cannot get Windows 7 to accept the photos from my camera (Olympus u Tough 6000). With XP it was no problem. I confess that I know next to nothing about computers so I am at a disadvantage to even understand why this is happening. I take a picture - plug my camera into the USB port on the computer - press load - I get a beepbeep sound - nothing happens. No photo makes it to the PC.. ..
Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated !

paulnh said:

Hello, this is my first time here so please excuse if I have posted in the wrong place. I hope I can receive some help with my problem.

I have just bought a new PC with Windows 7 installed. My previous PC had XP. I am an avid hillwalker and photo taker (Scottish Highlands) so this is pretty serious to me. I cannot get Windows 7 to accept the photos from my camera (Olympus u Tough 6000). With XP it was no problem. I confess that I know next to nothing about computers so I am at a disadvantage to even understand why this is happening. I take a picture - plug my camera into the USB port on the computer - press load - I get a beepbeep sound - nothing happens. No photo makes it to the PC.. ..
Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated !

You may need to get a card reader to get that working.

Thank you Doc. Yes - the Olympus came with a photo shop disc called 'Olympus Master 2' and another disc that was an 'Instruction manual in pdf format' and 'Adobe Reader Installer (for WIndows Only)'. Just the two discs. I never used them on XP preferring to work directly through my PC and editing photos with a program called "ZoomBrowser Ex 6.1.1". However; when I got this new system and I found that the photos would not go directly to my PC I downloaded the 'Olympus Master 2' disc in the hopes that that would resolve the issue - it didn't. I have not downloaded the 'instruction manual disc with the adobe reader file'. So. Other than that, I don't know what to say, except yes, "The Future is What YOu Make It".

notsograymatter: I cant get past the second part of your suggestion. Once I have plugged the camera into the USB port and I get the beepbeep sound I cannot find any indication that the pictures have gone anywhere - I have looked and looked - everywhere.

chev65: You are the second person today to tell me to get a card reader and I think I will hit the town tomorrow and pick one up. I don't know how that is going to bypass the problem, but I am game to give it a try.

If your computer won't take cards you can get a little usb card reader that looks like a little candy bar with a slot in it and they just plug into your USB and start unloading (ebay). Contact Olympus to see if they have a patch or new driver for system 7. Also look for free picture importing software the will work with system 7. Many cameras have trouble with system 7 but if you have a card it should bypass those problems. I use the little bar type reader the just plugs into your USB port and quickly loads. (Cheap)

I bought a 'card reader' today and it solved the problem!
Many thanks for all the great advice and help from all.
Cheers from the highlands.
paulnh

paulnh said:

I bought a 'card reader' today and it solved the problem!
Many thanks for all the great advice and help from all.
Cheers from the highlands.
paulnh

I was going to say; go to you control panel>autoplay, and make sure import with windows is selected.

That was one of the recommendations I had already tried - it didn't solve the problem.