There's a post missing, because I sent it to the wrong thread or
groups or something, but I have a problem that can't wait.

I got the USB cable working and copied about 1200 pictures I took in
the last 20 days. If this were film it would have been maybe 120
pictures instead. In either case, they would all be masterpieces.

After copying from the SD card in the camera to the PC, I thought it
would be efficient to rename the directory int he camera and create a
new one with the name 101Photo. I thought about asking here, but then
I thought, Heck, I know what I'm doing. I didn't get to be president
of a 4 billion a year company by asking every time I wanted to do
something.

So i renamed it and the new name appears in the title bar of the file
manager, and the title bar for its half of the screen, but the hour
glass is still showing 25 minutes after I did this. It only took 15
minutes to copy the pictures, but otoh, I was copying tehm to a
harddrive which I guess is faster than an SD card (even though I made
a point to get a fast SD card)

It does NOT say "program stopped" or whatever at the top, so my only
thought is that to change t he directory name, it has to change
something in everyone of the 1200 files in that directory.

Is that true?

Does it wear out the SD card to make such changes for what is
basically no good reason**?. Like flashdrives wear out, or used to.

If I'd known that I never would have done this. **It takes a little
effort to find where I left off at the last backup, but only a little.
And both my earlier Fuji and another camera came with softwware that
would do it automatically, whicfh I could have looked for and
installed on the netbook but did not.

So, Is it true? How long should I wait. ... Oh, it just finished,
after about 30 minutes, but the questions still stand, if you have any
info on the subject.




On Wed, 10 May 2017 20:52:10 +0300, Micky wrote:

I added XP and 10 groups, since it's rude to talk about them behind
their backs.

I'm still on vacation, so I don't have access to my win10 computer,
but when I got the Samsung WB35F camera (an actual camera) I connected
its USB port to the computer with a cable, the camera light went on
green and after a while I got a message on the camera screen that it
didn't work. And apparently wifi would only communicate with my
phone or 3 pre-determined websites, or maybe I could determine the
website.

But not with my PC.

At least the owners manual said nothing about that.

Last night a complicated scenario made me try that again, with my XP
netbook. And I can see all the pictures in the camera, which is all I
want, to see them and copy them to the PC.

Is there a reason you know of or can imagine why this would work with
XP and not with 10???

I'm hoping maybe the camera is "broken in" and it will work with 10
when I get home.