When I connect my ipod my computer thinks i'm connecting a camera?

when I connect my ipod to my computer, the camera box comes up

If it does not show up in iTunes try this: http://www.apple.com/support/ipodtouch/assistant/itunes/

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My computer thinks my iPad is a camera. I've done Apples trouble shooting instructions. No success. When I try to d'load

My computer thinks my iPad is a camera. I've done Apples trouble shooting instructions. No success. When I try to d'load and install iPad Software Update it comes up with an error message when installing, saying the network connection has timed out.
Has anyone any advice?

Your computer thinking your iPad is a camera is a common problem. When I connect my iPad to my computer the computer starts a camera application and wants to download photos from the iPad. To work around this here are two suggestions:
1. Just quit the camera software that starts up and start up iTunes instead.
2. On a Mac what happens when you connect a camera is usually controlled by the Image Capture application. It's in the Application folder on your Mac. Might be in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder. I'm not sure right now. In any case start up Image Capture and look at the preferences. There should be a choice for running an application when a camera is connected or do nothing. Change it to do nothing and save the preferences then close Image Capture. The next time you connect your iPad (or a camera) no camera or Image Capture software will run. When you do connect a camera you'll have to startup the camera software or Image Capture manually.
On a pc there might be a similar application that controls what software app runs when a camera is connected and the solution is probably similar. Sorry but I don't know much about pcs to help here.
As far as the time out problem when upgrading the iOS software, I've seen quite a few posts on this. It seems that certain firewall software in your Wi-Fi router or Mac and/or virus protection software on your Mac can interfer with the fluid download of the upgrade. The cure is to turn off firewall protection and virus protection during the upgrade process. Turn those back on when you are finished. Once you get to iOS 5 you will be able to perform future upgrades directly from the iPad via Wi-Fi and not have to connect to you computer to upgrade.

When i plug my ipod into computer itunes freezes?

When i plug my ipod into computer itunes freezes?
Iv tried many thing but Cant overcome problem

I have window 7 and attact via usb direct to computer

PMHome shows when I connect my cam to computer

reloaded windows7 after windows 10 when i connect the cam to computer pmhome shows does not mention HD CX 240 like before

Hi Ian1946,
Welcome to the Sony Community!
I would recommend running the PMH Initialization tool to restore the PlayMemories Home to its initial settings. Also, check the USB Connect Setting of the camcorder itself. Set the USB setting to MTP/PTP modebefore connecting the camera to the computer.
If this doesn't resolve the issue, I suggest uninstalling and reinstalling PMH then restarting your computer before connecting the camera.
For further assistance, we recommend visiting our Sony Global Web site for information on contacting the Sony Support Center in your region at http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/Support/.
If my post answers your question, please mark it as "Accept as Solution". Thanks_Mitch

I have a macbookpro. when I connect any camera to the mac it does not show as a device. How do I load my pictures to either iPhoto or Aperture? It worked before but just stopped working. Any suggestions?

I have a macbookpro. I use Aperture and Iphoto. When I connect any camera to the Mac it does not open it as a device in Iphoto, Aperture or in Finder. It use to work but just stopped. Any sugestions?

Here is the full story. It may be long so please bear with me. I take a lot of pictures and movies. Since I have over 30,000 pictures I decided to place the Iphoto library on an external drive to save space on my internal drive since ot was getting very full. After I did that it worked fine for a while. Then one day I could not open the Iphoto library. Since I was overseas at the time I brought it to the IStudio ( not an Istore) overseas. They said to rebuild the library and they would do that for me. It took all day since I had so many pictures. When they called me and told me it was ready, I went to pick it up. They started to show me the new library. It crashed again. Not knowing how to fix this at the ISudio, they installed Aperture and imported the Iphoto library. This worked fine for a short time.When back in the states, it crashed again just like Iphoto. I took it to the IStore. They did not know why the overseas Istudio did what they did what they did and rebuilt my aperture library. Again it worked fine. Now that I am overseas again. It crashed again. However, I concluded that the reason for these crashes is becuase I have the file on an external drive that derives its power from the Mac and not by itself. When I use it and stop for a while the MAC will go to sleep and this cuases the external drive to shut down. This then causes the library to have inconsistancies. Therefore, when it happened this time I tried to repair the library and after 36 hours it would close down Aperture. Therefore I decided to rebuild the library. That did not work either. So I tried opening the Aperture library with Iphoto. That seemed like it was going to work but after importing half of the 30,000 plus pictures. I photo shut down. I then made a new aperture libary and erged the old library with it. This worked. I now have an aperture library that works. However, when I plug my camera into the MAC nothing happens. The camera does not show up in devices in either Aperture, I photo nor in Finder. The USB port and cord I use works fine becuase I can read my external hard drives fine. I checked as SIG suggested in this thread and everything is set to open aperture when the camera is connected.
I have the newest OS version 10. 7. 2 and the computer frequently updates all my programs. I have not installed any ne software lately. The problem happens both if I am on battery or plugged in. Just before I came overseas the IStore replaced the Battery. I can go back to the IStudio here overseas but the last time I was there and told them about the problem ( I did not have my computer with me) they did not impress me with their wisdom. I will be back in that city in a month and can go there if need be. Thanks for all the help so far. God bless.

Iphoto loads when i connect my camera, then sits there looking at me :)

Hi everyone - I have a Fuji finepix S5500 and on my old Ibook or mac mini (iphoto5) when i connected the camera iphoto loaded and prompted me to import.. now with this new mac and Iphoto6 wehn i connect the camera it loads Iphoto, shows a new drive on the decktop but Iphoto does nothing, I have to manuallt tell it to import and from where..
when first ran it asked if i wanted to auto import and i said yes..
any ideas??
the only thing i can think of is that being an Intel system I cannot run flip4mac, the program that allowed me to access the movies from the camera, and as such Iphoto freaks out at the site of movies it doesnt know..
now another member on these forums told me how to get flip4mac working on an intel system but it made finder crash when trying to browse a directory with these movies so i removed it..
so might there be another solution?
Thanks
Richard

Solution - Cleared the AVI files from the camera and left only pictures, now everything happy..
Thanks anyway

When i connect my camera - it is not showing up in iPhoto

When I connect my camera to my Airbook - the camera does not show up in iPhoto.

Something is not working - you need to fix it
with no mind readers here it is important to have some information
What version of iPhoto?
What camera?
Has it ever worked?
Does it work with image capture?
Have you tried a card reader?
Any otther info?
Or would you like some random guesses
LN

When I attach my Ipod touch the device opens windows scanner and camera

When i attach my ipod touch the device opens windows scanner and camera window. The ipod is not found in itunes.

Try here:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
or
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X

When I hook my ipod to computer it reads: there is a problem with this drive scan the drivenow and fit it (F) it doesnt work

when I hook up ipod up to to itunes it reads: IP F There is a problem with this drive. scan the drive now and fix it. When I do this, nothing happens.

Hello,
I found the same issue. I have an iPod Classic 160 GB (Black) bought in April 2013. I'm using a Windows 8 Laptop bought in August 2014.
This is my account of this problem and why I think customers should just ignore the pop-up, but Apple (and possibly with Microsoft/Windows) should look at the issue.
Recently (approximately from early February 2015), when I connect the iPod to my computer I get a message saying there is a problem with the drive and it needs to be scanned and fixed. In full the message reads:
There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it.
This message appears very shortly and then immediately (once the message disappears, is clicked on, or x-d) brings up Windows File Explorer on the drive and its containing visible folders: which tells me nothing (though it can clearly open it and look at the files not locked to iTunes)
Other than this, the iPod seems to connect properly and work fine. iTunes (ver: 12.1.0.71 64bit) seems to find no issue. The iPod runs fine, it syncs properly (all of my music and podcasts). It responds as it always has and works for hours.
I did some troubleshooting: first on the wire, trying all ports and using an alternative, then on my laptop (all usb ports with other connectors and device drivers) and some basic testing of the iPod and iTunes. All of these seemed fine to me, no issue whatsoever other than the message every time I connect the iPod. So I just ignored it for a while.
Anyway, eventually I got curious (and had some more free time to look at it) and let Windows 8 do what it wanted (scan and fix the drive). Clearly the iPod works fine, and I have nothing important on it that isn't on my computer, so at worst Windows will break the software and I'd have to reformat the drive through iTunes (and Restore to Factory Settings) which I feel fine doing. I also took note of all of my settings on the iPod (like EQ, and the way I laid out the menus etc...) so I can redo those from defaults.
Prior to doing this, the iPod was version 2.0.5 (the latest version).
When I set the drive to be scanned, windows told me it identified the problem and would fix it. I don't remember the exact wording, as this message was immediately obscured by a pop-up telling me the drive was in use and software using it should be closed. So I closed iTunes which in turn caused the pop-up and message to disappear.
Windows then said it had succeeded and brought up the File Explorer of the drive again (now with some folders missing). When I loaded iTunes back up, it told me there was a problem with the iPod and it would need to be restored. Ejecting the iPod showed that it seemed to believe it had no content on it.
So I restored the iPod through iTunes, downloading the latest iPod update again and started syncing the iPod. After adding a couple songs, I ejected it and played them - they worked fine, the menus had returned to defaults but I quickly changed them to how I liked and overall the iPod is back to how it was. I've now set it to sync the remaining thousands of songs (and couple hundred podcasts). Edit - by the end of this post, this has finished copying Music, Podcasts, and Playlists. It's back to exactly how it was before.
Annoyingly, this has not removed the pop-up message when I connect the iPod, still the same as before - the most irksome thing being the file window opening every time i connect the iPod, though this is still minor (I just have to remember that this will happen and manually close it each time).
So I'm at a loss on the cause, and am going to return to ignore it. I'd greatly appreciate if Apple could look into this. I'm wondering if it is a recent update to iTunes or to Windows, but I don't trust that I won't be able to undo changes if I myself began looking through them (and I lack the time and expertise to do that effectively). I think there might be that Windows is detecting something in the way that Apple formats their iPod drives that it believes is an issue (even when it isn't). My guess is the way of formatting is unchanged (the iPod hadn't received an update recently to suggest and alteration to this) but maybe the things Windows is looking for may have slightly changed and disagrees with Apple's way of keeping the iPod Drive proprietary to iTunes.
TL,DR: Advice to others (and Ljchicago) searching this topic is to ignore the message for now.
Thanks,
Dixavd

I bought a new apple computer and when i synced the iPod with computer it erased all my previous personal music.How can i get my music back to where it was before syncing with new computer?

I bought a new apple computer, when I synced my ipod after I thought i had transferred all my music all my old music was erased. How can I get back my old music on my ipod?

You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
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My computer think my iphone is a camera - seemingly unsolvable

Just can't seem to get to the bottom of this one.
Every time I dock our iPhone, my PC running XP recognizes it at a camera and asks what software that it should use. I have troubleshot the problem with http://docs .info.apple.com/artical.html?artnum=302538, but even with all start ups (but qtask and iTunesHelper) disabled and all services (but Apple Mobile Device Support and the hidden Microsoft services) disable, I still get the same odd behavior.
With no other options offered, what can I do (short of just throwing my iPhone through the window)?

If you really don't want your XP computer to see your phone as a camera, try this:
1) Connect your iPhone and dismiss any "Camera" boxes that pop up.
2) Double-click "My Computer".
3) Right-click the "Apple iPhone" device and select "Properties"
4) Click the "Events" tab.
5) Select the "Camera connected" event in the drop-down list.
6) Click the "Take no action" button.
7) Click "OK"
That should prevent the pop-up box from showing when you connect the iPhone, but should not interfere with the connection to iTunes.
8) Save these notes so you can reverse this action in the future if you change your mind.
Regards,
-Peter

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Suddenly iphoto freezes and stops responding when I connect my cameras to download both photos and video. I've never had a problem downloading from these cameras before today. I have both a Nikon D700(SLR) and Kodak HD Zi8(pocket camecorder).What to do?

I've tried checking for updates (none necessary), running v 9.1.5
Everytime I open it and connect a camera I have to force quit because it stops responding and won't upload.
It's uploaded from both these cameras before with no problem.
How can I fix this?

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