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Kodak Digital Photo Frame
My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's
supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter |
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Kodak Digital Photo Frame
"Peter" wrote in message
... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter With stuff like this the first thing I try is another OS. Do you still have a Vista, XP or such around? If not take it to someone who does and try it. Make sure it is not the Kodak itself. If it works on another computer, then go from there. -- Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. |
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"Peter" wrote in message ... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter Well if it says connected To Pc Can you then send files to from the computer. I have an archos that when plugged in via usb says the same and controls on the devise are locked but It appears in My computer or in copy move to Browse |
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"Peter" wrote in message ... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter Jus copy files to the USB drive that is connected. That is your photo frame. |
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Kodak Digital Photo Frame
Peter wrote:
My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter Unplug it and plug it back in. Should show up as a drive (or 2 if it has a SD slot). Otherwise fire up the frame software, see if it shows up. The frame software will help trim down the huge size of some digital photos. -- Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. |
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Peter wrote:
My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter As they said, try another USB cable and/or USB port. You may be sending enough power for the frame to be seen by the USB port but not to function as a drive. If you are using an unpowered USB hub that too can cause symptoms as you describe. Be sure to plug directly into the USB port of the PC at least until you get things working. |
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"Peter" wrote in message
... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter Thanks for all the comments. Just to respond to a few. I'm using a powered hub and a cable that works fine with my camera. The frame does not show up on the computer at all. I plan to buy several cheap USB pens as my wife says it would be nice to be able to display different groups of scenes from our holidays. I've now had some more correspondence with Kodak who say Windows 7 is not supported but then go on to say I can use the software they say doesn't work!! Guess I'm not surprised, after all Windows 7 is so very new they've probably only just spotted it. (Joke). The spec for the frame says software for Windows XP or later - When I can find a complaints address I'll write. Meanwhile thanks for all the comments - the frame does display good pictures so all is not lost. Peter |
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"Peter" wrote in message m... "Peter" wrote in message ... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter Thanks for all the comments. Just to respond to a few. I'm using a powered hub and a cable that works fine with my camera. The frame does not show up on the computer at all. I plan to buy several cheap USB pens as my wife says it would be nice to be able to display different groups of scenes from our holidays. I've now had some more correspondence with Kodak who say Windows 7 is not supported but then go on to say I can use the software they say doesn't work!! Guess I'm not surprised, after all Windows 7 is so very new they've probably only just spotted it. (Joke). The spec for the frame says software for Windows XP or later - When I can find a complaints address I'll write. Meanwhile thanks for all the comments - the frame does display good pictures so all is not lost. Peter Open the disc in explorer right click the setup exe select properties. Select the compatibility tab then Win Xp. Ok back out and then Click the setup again and run it |
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"Trev" invalid wrote in message ... "Peter" wrote in message m... "Peter" wrote in message ... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter Thanks for all the comments. Just to respond to a few. I'm using a powered hub and a cable that works fine with my camera. The frame does not show up on the computer at all. I plan to buy several cheap USB pens as my wife says it would be nice to be able to display different groups of scenes from our holidays. I've now had some more correspondence with Kodak who say Windows 7 is not supported but then go on to say I can use the software they say doesn't work!! Guess I'm not surprised, after all Windows 7 is so very new they've probably only just spotted it. (Joke). The spec for the frame says software for Windows XP or later - When I can find a complaints address I'll write. Meanwhile thanks for all the comments - the frame does display good pictures so all is not lost. Peter Open the disc in explorer right click the setup exe select properties. Select the compatibility tab then Win Xp. Ok back out and then Click the setup again and run it ============= On the compatibility screen, I've also had to check the "run as administrator" box. Also, I had to run the install program itself in compatibility move. I hate bottom posting - see my own "Program needs permission to run" query immediately after this one. The top portion of this ongoing text is cluttered with "who said what, when" lines that should precede each new comment! Now I'll receive a Hate" response from Mr. Death! |
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Paul H wrote:
SNIP You can even split up you reply to some up top, some on the bottom. I hate bottom posting - see my own "Program needs permission to run" query immediately after this one. The top portion of this ongoing text is cluttered with "who said what, when" lines that should precede each new comment! Now I'll receive a Hate" response from Mr. Death! No you won't. How people post doesn't matter to be. When they start saying top-posting is the preferred method, I just add a colorful reply as to why that *is not* so. -- Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. Even throw some comments into you signature...it makes no difference. |
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Paul H wrote:
SNIP I hate bottom posting - see my own "Program needs permission to run" query immediately after this one. The top portion of this ongoing text is cluttered with "who said what, when" lines that should precede each new comment! Now I'll receive a Hate" response from Mr. Death! As it is the New Year, and Death is feeling helpful....use a real newsreader instead of that Windows Mail. XPN is free, and has a Linux and Windows version. You can with a click hide/view quoted text. Then you may bottom post with ease. -- Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. |
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"Trev" invalid wrote in message
... "Peter" wrote in message m... "Peter" wrote in message ... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter Thanks for all the comments. Just to respond to a few. I'm using a powered hub and a cable that works fine with my camera. The frame does not show up on the computer at all. I plan to buy several cheap USB pens as my wife says it would be nice to be able to display different groups of scenes from our holidays. I've now had some more correspondence with Kodak who say Windows 7 is not supported but then go on to say I can use the software they say doesn't work!! Guess I'm not surprised, after all Windows 7 is so very new they've probably only just spotted it. (Joke). The spec for the frame says software for Windows XP or later - When I can find a complaints address I'll write. Meanwhile thanks for all the comments - the frame does display good pictures so all is not lost. Peter Open the disc in explorer right click the setup exe select properties. Select the compatibility tab then Win Xp. Ok back out and then Click the setup again and run it Whoops!! Tried the above. PC started to reboot and sat there with a black screen. Had to use System Restore to recover. I think I can live without this software not to mention the time it's costing me. Peter |
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"Paul H" wrote in message ... "Trev" invalid wrote in message ... Open the disc in explorer right click the setup exe select properties. Select the compatibility tab then Win Xp. Ok back out and then Click the setup again and run it ============= On the compatibility screen, I've also had to check the "run as administrator" box. Also, I had to run the install program itself in compatibility move. I hate bottom posting - see my own "Program needs permission to run" query immediately after this one. The top portion of this ongoing text is cluttered with "who said what, when" lines that should precede each new comment! Now I'll receive a Hate" response from Mr. Death! Where you post is up to you but it would help if you set your newsreader to mark each line of the previous post with a character, usually ' ' . Then people would know which lines of text were yours. Windows Mail: Tools Options Send News Sending Format Plain Text settings Select the box ' Indent the original text ..... '. |
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Whew! I got off easy! Thanks. And thank you for the tip XPN. But I've used Outlook Express, etc. forever, and prefer to stay with Microsoft products wherever I can. I've even moved my Windows Mail to my W7 computer. OE was so much better than WM, but once you import to WM, you're screwed - no easy way to go back. "Death" -x wrote in message ... Paul H wrote: SNIP I hate bottom posting - see my own "Program needs permission to run" query immediately after this one. The top portion of this ongoing text is cluttered with "who said what, when" lines that should precede each new comment! Now I'll receive a Hate" response from Mr. Death! As it is the New Year, and Death is feeling helpful....use a real newsreader instead of that Windows Mail. XPN is free, and has a Linux and Windows version. You can with a click hide/view quoted text. Then you may bottom post with ease. -- Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur, Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. |
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Kodak Digital Photo Frame
"Peter" wrote in message ... My wife was given a Kodak M820 digital photo frame for Christmas. It's supposed to interface with a PC. Despite downloading the Win7 version of the software & updating the firmware it does not appear as a removable drive as it is supposed to. The driver appears to have installed & when you plug it in the frame says "USB connected to PC". Be grateful for any ideas. Kodaks suggestion is to check the USB cable but this works fine in my digital camera. Peter I bought the same piece of crap from woot and REGRET IT now! I have spent more time getting this junk to work than I have ever spent on anything else. I finally ditched the miserable software and just sent all my files to a 4GB flash drive. It works tolerably well now but rejects playing video files even those formatted .mov. Oh well, I'll never buy anything by Kodak again. |
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