Digital Camera TWAIN transfer problems

[rh71]

I'm having a problem using the TWAIN acquire (from multiple programs - ACDSee32 v3.1 & Photoshop 6) with my Kodak DC280. It would read all the thumbnails fine, 22 of them currently. Then while transferring, it would stop and freeze my mouse completely. I've done this a few times and it freezes at random points, at different pictures.

I have an optical Intellimouse Explorer and the red light on it would go out when it freezes. I can still use my keyboard to navigate and everything, the mouse just freezes. Anyway, I can't do anything with the image transfer afterward and have to reboot the machine. This has happened even after re-installing the Kodak TWAIN software v1.1 multiple times(I install just the TWAIN program and nothing else). I've also done the WIN2000 USB update.

The weird thing is that this had been working for months and now is giving me problems. I am using a new CompactFlash card from Kingston though. But I did re-insert my original Kodak 8MB Flash card and tried transferring - it gave me the same transfer freeze problem and stopped my mouse the same way. So I know it's not a bad Flash card, it must be the software or something with USB.

Ideas?

[Richard_Cranium72]

Yeah, I like my card reader also..

But to the problem,,

Have you uninstalled/reinstalled the software for the camera ?

That's the first step I'd take.

The speed for a Sandisk CF reader is awesome

Compare using a USB cable to camera, 500k pic files, 15+ seconds per each.

Using a reader, 500k pics open as soon as I touch the icon.
Saving them to file is about 2 seconds each.

Time is money, twain is old..

IMHO anyway

DrVette

[rh71]

Could someone move this to the Tech Support forum? Much appreciated!

[Kuasimodem]

I had problems with TWAIN transfers from my HP camera, so I chose a different transfer route.

I bought a compact flash reader at Best Buy to transfer pics from my camera. You just pop the card out of the camera, plug it into the adapter, and transfer the files. It accesses the picture files on the card just like accessing a hard drive (it even has it's own drive letter).

I can now dump the entire contents of my 128Mb Compact Flash card to my hard drive in about 10 seconds, instead of 30 minutes or so.

I figure that the $30 that it cost me has already paid for itself in battery use in the camera during transfers, and in time wasted waiting for the transfers to complete.

Curt