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Hi Damon,

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, Damon Lynch wrote:

> I do hope you find the program useful. I also use Bibble 5.

That's why I'm thinking of dropping my own custom python script and
using rapid-photo-importer instead :-) Your website is quite
convincing and the code looks nice.

(Spelling error on http://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/features.html -
"camaeras")

> The plans for supporting PTP cameras depends completely on the work of
> others, in the sense that the program makes use of other people's libraries.
> Recent versions of Gnome include GIO, which is a work in progress. Some
> cameras are supported much better than others. Hopefully support will
> improve over time. Meanwhile, you may like to consider purchasing an
> inexpensive card reader. In addition to downloads working reliably, you will
> very likely find that download speeds will increase significantly,
> especially if your memory cards are of reasonable speed.

I have a card reader, it's just kept in my camera bag and my PC
already has a USB cable that I use for other devices. I might start to
use cards then...

I'm finding that my Gnome(ish) environment doesn't automatically mount
the card. I always tried to DISABLE that type of thing on this desktop
over the last many years, but I'm relenting now so I'll have to find
how I stopped it...

My Gnome panel does show a mount button when I insert the card, but
it's not *auto*mounted even though gconf-editor suggests it should
be. I don't run Nautilus, and maybe it's Nautilus who would do that
mounting.

Anyway, that's more my problem: My questions related to
rapid-photo-downloader: How do you then import into Bibble 5? Do you
manually launch it, and use the File->Import and navigate to your
download location yourself? It doesn't appear to take any command line
arguments.

After I've sorted this out, I'm going to be trying to find a good
Batch Output system to send photos to flickr, and more hopefully, to
CostCo who I use for printing :-)

> There are no reliable python bindings for gphoto2.

I found similar opinions from a quick search around.

 Nick