Connecting to Camera, UnErasing Photo (was RE: [NCLUG] Linux Alternatives & Necessities for Home Use)

[Rich Young]

Brian-

I don't even know what application I used to connect - I plugged the
camera in, and a file browser window popped up with my pictures
displayed in it.  From there, I think it would have been a drag & drop
affair to put them in the filesystem. All this is with reference to a
KRUD/Fedora Core 3 system; other distros might have more or less
user-friendliness built in.

I think I was expecting to use KPhoto (?) but never had to open it.

Brian, if you have a camera with "erased" photos on it that you want to
recover, I'm not the best person to ask - I've only been doing this with
linux for about 16 hours.  But I know that some cameras have a switch
you can set that tells the camera to act like a USB mass storage device.
If you have this control, or if you can just use a card reader (usually
only ~$20) instead of the camera, you should be able to browse the
camera's card as a mounted drive and see if the file is really gone.

If you're looking at it in the file system and it's just not there, now
you're talking about whether some file recovery application will work,
and I'm not sure what to tell you there.

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I'm Rich Young, and I approved this message.

-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org] On Behalf
Of bsimpson at att.net
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:26 PM
To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Linux Alternatives & Necessities for Home Use

> It's been a couple years since my last (failed) experiment in home 
> end-user linux. Things have definitely come a long way. We're using 
> KRUD, and so far, my printer, digital camera and CD burner have Just 
> Worked. Last time, the printer was a real struggle, and I never did 
> get the camera or burner working. I know this reflects more on the 
> thousands of developers working on individual packages, but I'd like 
> to thank Tummy for their part in it anyway.

What application do you use to connect to your digital camera (via USB)?

Also is there a way to unerase a picture that is likely still in the
digital camera, but inadvertantly erased?

Brian S
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