Mounting a digital camera in a file manager

anybody knows any handy way to make a digital camera auto mount in nautilus or any other file manager ?
Last edited by I'mGeorge (2011-03-24 11:39:41)

EO wrote:
Hello,
Gphoto is great, but there is a bug with the '--new' option. It wants to overwrite the files anyway. Does anyone of you know how to download the most recent files i.e. the files which are not already on my HDD? My camera is a Nikon P300 and it seems this camera does not work very well with the --new option
Thanks for your help,
#EO
It's not a bug, if you execute in a terminal man gphoto2 you will see something like this
--new
Only get not already downloaded files. This option depends on
camera support of flagging already downloaded images and is not
available for all drivers.
So it's all about what kind of camera do you use. I guess you're just one of the unlucky ones regarding this matter.
Just use a graphical picture camera extractor like Darktable or Digikam which will allow you to extract only the files you want.

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