Need Help now please!

Isar

Since yesterday i've been trying to upload my photos from my 50D to the laptop, but it just doesn't work. I know I have it plugged in alright. When I click into the camera from my computer, its nothing there, and when i leftclick and press get pictures, it waits for a while and tells me that the scanner or the camera is in use, try again later. Even when I go into EOS Utility it doesn't give me the option to download the photographs. It has happened before, and it really anoys me. I kind of need these photos now. Any ideas what to do?

AnimalRights

Not a solution but have you tried to upload these pictures to a diff laptop/desktop or maybe try a friends, even an internet cafe? It will narrow down what's wrong.

Isar

I uploaded photos loads of times in school today, and it worked fine. And it has worked before on this laptop.. Its just that it loves to annoy me sometimes when i really could get on without it..

sineadw

Or try a card reader?

Thoie

Do you have a card reader and try it that way instead?

What OS are you using?

Isar

don't have a card reader i'm afraid.. should really get one though.. Can't say I know what OS is. Now it keeps blinking on the camera that its busy... But it has been doing that for a while. Can it have anything to do with that the battery is low on it? Even though it enough battery to have the camera turned on...

Thoie

OS = operating system - Windows Vista, Windows XP, some variation of Linux...

And yeah, low battery may be causing slow read times of the card, which could be giving flakiness.

Isar

i'm charging it now... anyway i'm using windows xp

Thoie

Isar wrote: »

i'm charging it now... anyway i'm using windows xp

Cool - I'm just about to start prepping food for a dinner party, but will pop back to machine from time to time (or prop the laptop over the cooker, but I don't think I love you that much) - if the full battery doesn't help I'll take a look around to see what might help you.

Isar

Thanks Alot..

Isar

I've charged it now for a little while, and plugged it back in.. On the camera it still just says that its busy... And its been doing that for a while...

Borderfox

Change the communication setting on the camera to pc connect?

Isar

how do you do that?

Deliverance XXV

Some memory cards have a protective switch on it to prevent accidental overwriting.
When switched to protective mode you cant read the memory card so this could be the case. Not sure if CF cards come with this switch but it's worth a look.

Alternatively, if the above don't work, AR is right. You have to narrow it down. Try read your memory card in a reader. They are only a tenner or so these days. Try a different memory card and take a few test shots and see if you can read that card.

Good luck.

Borderfox

Isar wrote: »

how do you do that?

In the setting menu go to communication and change it to the other selection..

mikeanywhere

sineadw wrote: »

Or try a card reader?

Just going to suggest that myself. Defo get one as will save a lot of time and aggro

Isar

can't find the communication in my menu...

mikeanywhere

Borderfox wrote: »

In the setting menu go to communication and change it to the other selection..

Is the software the one that came with the camera or are you using something else??

Isar

the one that came with the camera...

Deliverance XXV

You should still be able to access the camera's memory via "my computer". If you can't it suggests a fault elsewhere.

Isar

I went to my computer, and went into the camera, and pressed start downloading images, and it says that the computer cannot detect the camera. Even though when i turn on the camera this little box pops up were the options is suppose to be, and it says that its connected, and the box is blank...

Isar

Finally i got it to work by turning the camera on a annoying amount of time!