IPhoto no longer recognizes camera in 10.6
Hello,
I just upgraded to Snow Leopard. Now when I open iPhoto it no longer recognizes the digital camera (Canon PowerShot SD960IS). No change in the settings. Worked fine in 10.5
Anyone else experiencing this? Any solutions?
Thanks.
Okay. I rebooted the machine and ran iPhoto again.
This time it recognized the camera, but it took a full 5 minutes to display all the images.
Strange because there were only about 50 photos (2-3MB each) to preview.
Importing was equally as slow. Took about 8-9 minutes to import everything.
Something strange is going on with 10.6, iPhoto, and preview/importing of photos that wasn't there in 10.5.
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