Can't Transfer Photos From Camera To Computer

I have a Dell Optiplex 170L I'm using now running Xubuntu. It's okay but it's getting a little sluggish. I'm attaching the RAM printout.

Somebody gave me an LG computer that's much newer. But it's been cloned from another Dell Optiplex 170L so that's what the spec says. Anyway, here's what it says:
Dell Optiplex 170L
AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon (tm) HD Graphics
2.09 GHz, 3.25 GB RAM

Hardrive is 74GB. Which is more than double my 36GB now.

But I noticed (see 009 attachment) my old computer has a faster processor (2.80 Ghz).

This new one has XP on it. So I'd probably single boot Xubuntu to it. (Or could it handle a bigger distro?)

I have another identical computer (to my old one) that I added a half GB RAM to and it helped. I could do the same to this one.

Or use the new one.

I am a true newbie and not up for the switch, but if it would be worth it I would. Think I should?

In an attempt to solve another problem (transfer .avi files from a camera to a computer) I uninstalled Tumbler in the terminal via this command:

sudo apt-get remove tumbler

I was unable to transfer the .avi files so I re-installed tumbler in the terminal via this command:

sudo apt-get install tumbler

Joe here helped me find a solution to my transferring the .avi problem so that is no longer an issue, but when I turned my computer on this morning I got a window that said Tumbler had crashed. (see screenshots)

I know Tumbler has to do with thumbnails but I don't know the full scope of how. My thumbnails seem to be working fine as far as I can tell. So am I concerned about the crash, do I do anything about it or just let it go? Thanks.

I am new to Bash scripting.

I have a main directory called Photos which has many subdirectories like People, Places and Things. Each of these subdirectories is populated by other subdirectories and lots of JPG photo images.

The digital cameras name the files in a way that is difficult to manage with web hosting.

I would like to go to each directory and subdirectory and rename the photos 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc. so that I can use a simple XML template to access them by specifying only a hosting directory.

I tried to use the following script:

#! /bin/bash

cd /home/paul/test

find . -name "*.jpg" -print0 | rename -v 's/.+/our $i; sprintf("%d.jpg", 1+$i++)/e' * -vn

exit 0

It successfully renames all of the files in all of the directories, but it does not restart the numbering for each new subdirectory. So first it goes through Photos and renames the three JPG files there 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3. jpg, and then it opens the first subdirectory People and names the three JPG files there 4.jpg, 5.jpg and 6.jpg. Next it moves to the next subdirectory and continues sequential renaming until it is done.

I want it to restart sequential renaming with each new subdirectory, so that after renaming the three JPG files in Photos to 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg, it moves to the first subdirectory and renames the JPG files there starting with 1.jpg again.

That way I use the links 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc in the XML template and just change the directory name to download the photos from the web.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

I checked the echo/sound test. Worked. The video test. Worked. A friend called. I could see and hear her perfectly. She could hear me perfectly but couldn't see me. I noticed the video icon with the red line thru it so I clicked that. My friend could now see and hear me perfectly, and I could hear her, but there was now a purple flashing screen over her face. Eventually the purple flashing went to a solid purple and then the entire computer froze solid and I had to power it off.

The only other clue is to get the sound to work on my end I had to go into the pulseaudio volume control and in the input devices next to quickcam Communicate MP/S5500AnalgoMono click on the green check mark (that when I hover the cursor over it it says "set as fallback").

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS 64 bit.
Recently, everytime I now run Shotwell (which I got from Ubuntu Software Center), it starts auto-importing photos, then abruptly crashes.

I've used it for a couple years w/no problems like that.

I tried today removing it and reinstalling it with same problem.

I was recently given a Samsung Convoy 3 phone as an insurance replacement. One of the phone's features is that you are supposed to be able to transfer data directly from the phone to your computer using a USB cable, but the phone's data transfer program (Mass Storage) has been hanging at the step where it contacts the computer. I am running Linux Mint 13, and I've determined that the operating system recognizes the phone when I plug it in, but it doesn't mount automatically. Verizon and Samsung have not been helpful.

Today I figured out how to mount and unmount the phone manually using mtpfs, but I wasn't sure what program to assign to open it, and the one I chose didn't work. Now I can't figure out how to change the program assignment -- no "open with" option comes up when I right-click on the icon on my desktop -- and I'm also not sure what program to use.

I'm willing to do the whole data transfer via command line if someone can walk me through it. I'm not very experienced with command-line prompts yet, but I've loved the ones I've learned so far.

Thanks!

Hi,

In December I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 and then to Ubuntu 14.04.

I have always used Picasa as my photo manager, and all my photos each with individual headings for the last 7 years are on Picasa 3.0. Today I tried to import my last holiday photos into Picasa, and something called Shotwell photo manager opened and started importing 7 years of my photos. I stopped the process quite quickly, as I had never heard of Shotwell, and I just wanted to add my new photos to my existing photo library in Picasa.

I feel that I should be able to choose which photo manager I want to use, I realise that Picasa is a Google programme and quite old, and Shotwell is Linux and new, but I am familiar with Picasa and do not want to change to any other programme.

Please can somebody tell me in simple terms how to keep Picasa as my default photo manager and get rid of Shotwell.

Any help will be much appreciated, thank you.

Hello everybody and thanks always for the help

I think the question I am about to ask is very beginners like, so I would appreciate the help.

I know (although I don't remember right now) there is a way to run a program on boot. I think it involves rc.local (correct me if I am wrong) I think you can put there the processes that you want to be run everytime linux is rebooted.

My question is, what should I do if I want a program to be run everytime some other event happen? For example (and in concrete) I am using a camera connected to my linux system and I want a program to run everytime I unplug and replug the camera through the USB port.

Can someone share his/her knowledge with me on this point

Thanks a thousand

i was suggested by a friend to use linux because my laptop was running slow. it worked fine for a few weeks but one day i turned my laptop on and i got a message that cinnamon has crashed & is running in fallback mode. i did what it suggested and tried to restart cinnamon but when i pressed the restart cinnamon icon the cursor just when back to the middle of my screen and the icon came back up again saying that cinnamon had crashed. ive searched on many forums looking for a salution to fix my problem but most of them i need to use my termenal which i cannot access.could someone please help me out with this problem. just a little heads up im not a computer programer or webpage designer

So I have 1 gb micro SD card made by Nokia and it just refuses to be formated.

I've tried many ways but it just won't completely format. This is what I've tried
ayy did "diskpart" utility in Windows to remove protection by command "volume disk clear readonly" allowed to format once but doesn't compelely blank it Tried the builtin "Disk Utility" to format but gave me an error, "Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)" Installed Gparted. Did simple rightlclick format to NTFS but it gave me an error "LVM not supported loop disk label" Tried giving multipel commands, delete disk [makes it unallocated drive] create new ntfs Primary partion, gives me an error "too many primary partition"
I've attached the Gparted error log. [can't attach html, pasted the code]

What can I do now? It just keeps getting in its Nokia files back and wont leave FAT format, i want to make it NTFS so i can use it in the camera. It's not corrupted because I can paste files on to it on the desktop. Also its not locked by a physical button

Code:

GParted 0.19.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2
Delete /dev/mmcblk0 (fat16, 968.75 MiB) from /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
calibrate /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
path: /dev/mmcblk0
start: 0
end: 1983999
size: 1984000 (968.75 MiB)
delete partition  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )

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Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 967.00 MiB) on /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
     	
create empty partition  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
libparted messages    ( INFO )
     	
Too many primary partitions.

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Code:

GParted 0.19.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2
Format /dev/mmcblk0 as ntfs  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
     	
calibrate /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
path: /dev/mmcblk0
start: 0
end: 1983999
size: 1984000 (968.75 MiB)
clear old file system signatures in /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 1015803904  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
flush operating system cache of /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
set partition type on /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
libparted messages    ( INFO )
     	
The flag 'lvm' is not available for loop disk labels.

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