Upload from Panasonic DMC-TZ3

Brand new IMac owner. I am trying to upload photos from my Panasonic DMC-TZ3 digital camera through USB. My IMac didn't like it, just spins the little color wheel. Can anyone help a newbie?

chrysotile
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Some things to try:
Make sure your camera is set to Mass Storage, which is the protocol used to connect to Macs
Have you tried putting the camera card into a USB Card Reader?
Regards
TD

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to say did and without a gigant of effort.
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my thoughts.
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b) don’t Daisy chain camcorder - external hard disk - Mac
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i) defective camera TRY IT ON ANOTHER MAC !
j) remove bookmarks in iMovie project
k) Do You have desktop pictures or screen-savers active? Try turning them off.
l) Updating - OS has to be a clean install - not an update eg from X.3.x to X.4.x (no good)
OS X.4.0-2 needs a clean install to work (I use X.3.9)
m) Updating QT and/or other updates (to 7 needs v6 to be cleaned out first)
QT v.7 needs a clean install to work (I use 6.5.2)
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Trash the Font Collections Folder.
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p) or thrashing the com.apple.imovie.plist file (Rodney Brown2)
q) - Other programs interfering like Flip4Mac
r) - Third party or old plug-ins
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◊ Slow hard disk (fragmented: repair permissions, repair hard disk, use a faster hard disk)
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◊ USB/USB2 is NO GO !
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◊ Cheque FW connection at Mac end. OK?
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