Hi all erm im a bit stuck. My friend has just brought a new computer from dell, we have taken all the pictures of his camera and put them on his computer. Now Dell have told him to send the computer back due to a fault and we need to get all the pictures back to his camera. I have a sony cybershot and have tryed to do it on my own computer and it wont let me put the pics back on the camera. Im not sure what camera he has but when we put the pictures on his computer it removed them of the camera. Anyone have any ideas what to do as he wants to take his memory card (with the pictures on) to a local printing shop and get them printed. Thanks all And i dont have the heart to tell him i cant get them back to his camera.

[nathsea]

can you not just burn them to a cd and he takes that to a shop?

Nathan

[Crocodile]

You should be able to copy back to the camera in Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer!). The camera should appear as a removeable drive in My Computer. If it isn't there already, create a folder called DCIM on the camera & copy the files to that.

If that fails & you have a CD-R burn them to disk instead.

Gosh i never thought of that can you do that i think he was gonna take it to Boots and just use there machine where you just slot the memory card into it

[Crocodile]

I've never used a Boots (Kodak?) reader but I believe they give an option to create a CD. Logically there must also be a facility to read it subsequently. Worst case, he can e-mail them to an online photo printer.

Christ thanks chaps that will make his day thanks for your help

crocodile you lost me a bit as im no wizard with computer but thanks for your help Thanks again all

[Crocodile]

Connect his camera to his PC via the usb lead & close any camera manufacturers software that autoloads. Open My Computer & the camera will be shown either as a drive or specifically. Double click on the icon for the camera/drive & check for a folder called DCIM. If it doesn't exist, right click in a space in the camera window & select New > Folder. Name this folder DCIM. Copy the images back from the PC to this folder & they should now be viewable on the camera as long as you haven't changed the names of the files.

I just tryed that but when i open the camera from my computer it wont let me make a new folder. I also tryed new folder then dragging it into the camera but it wouldnt let me.

Sorry i just changed a setting on the camera from PTP to Normal and has worked


thankyou

[Crocodile]

[Bristol Pete]

Gosh i never thought of that can you do that i think he was gonna take it to Boots and just use there machine where you just slot the memory card into it

For reference, try NOT to use the Kodak machines in Boots. The quality is awful. Try and find somewhere local, independent or something or somewhere that may use fuji quick booths as the pictures are better than kodak.

In my opinion of course.

[LJBS]

I agree about the quality of boots prints. The best commercial solution I have found is Colourama. We used to have a Colourama shop and I used to take a CD into them, but you can upload over the web.