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Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras?

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras?
Date	2025-01-12 22:30 -0500
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On Sun, 1/12/2025 4:31 PM, T wrote:
> On 1/12/25 1:11 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> Not really, because File Explorer has built-in PTP and MTP support and
>> handles cameras, smartphones, etc. as special 'devices', not as part of
>> the file system. 
> 
> That is no excuse for the gallery packages not to
> also work seamlessly. especially when they can
> find the camera, but can't import picture from it.
> 
> This is just bad programming.  That is why I am
> asking for an alternatives.

Go here.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_image_viewers

Now, search for the word "MTP". How many image viewer support MTP ?

Strange, isn't it.

In another thread, I could find complaints about how DCIM
works on Android, and that it's not a simple file tree.
Apparent, OSes up to Windows 7, didn't seem to have a
problem transferring MTP content, but after that,
things changed. And MTP was invented by Microsoft, too.

*******

There is the possibility of a FUSE path in Windows. Windows
has its own notion of a FUSE. Someone here, claims to have
got mtpmount and libmtp to work.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64910317/mount-mtp-device-on-windows

Even the links to other articles in that thread are helpful. This
helps veer away from unsupported Dokan projects :-)

https://superuser.com/questions/369959/how-do-i-access-mtp-devices-on-the-command-line-in-windows/1724634#1724634

Apparently Powershell can access the phone namespace through File Explorer.
There are a couple Powershell scripts in the tree here. This isn't mtpFS
nice, but it is better than nothing for copying the phone DCIM. And
is better than a jam-up while unknown functions flail away
beneath the surface. You can at least see your attempts
to copy files, are not flummoxed by some stupid code
generating thumbnails.

https://github.com/nosalan/powershell-mtp-file-transfer/

I hope the Android device or camera, has high enough
I/O speed for this sort of transfer. The customer might
not be overjoyed, if an attempt at a backup of DCIM
takes half an hour. I know my little camera with its
10MB/sec SD card, the USB on it can't go faster than the card.
And there is no obvious option for faster SD on it (old camera).

I think image viewer people, don't want anything to do with MTP.
Imagine the bug filings that would result L-)

   Paul

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picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-11 23:17 -0800
  Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Hank Rogers <invalid@nospam.com> - 2025-01-12 08:50 +0000
    Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 01:38 -0800
      Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 03:12 -0800
  Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-12 11:36 +0000
    Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 12:42 -0800
      Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-12 22:34 +0000
      Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2025-01-13 09:53 -0700
        Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-13 15:32 -0800
  Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2025-01-12 13:16 +0000
    Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 13:34 -0800
      Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 14:31 -0800
        Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-12 21:34 -0500
          Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 19:58 -0800
            Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-12 23:16 -0500
  Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-12 08:29 -0500
    Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 12:43 -0800
  Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-12 08:56 -0500
    Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 12:48 -0800
  Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-12 16:31 +0000
    Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 12:47 -0800
      Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-12 21:11 +0000
        Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 13:28 -0800
          Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-13 15:33 +0000
            Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-13 15:34 -0800
              Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-13 16:17 -0800
                Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-13 19:32 -0500
                Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-13 16:45 -0800
              Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-14 15:06 +0000
                Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-17 16:08 -0800
                Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-18 13:25 +0000
                Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-18 07:04 -0800
        Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 13:31 -0800
          Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-12 22:30 -0500
            Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 20:01 -0800
          Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-13 15:34 +0000
            Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-13 13:54 -0500
  Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Tony <noreply@ghtyhgfrt.com> - 2025-01-13 00:26 +0000
    Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 20:04 -0800
      Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-13 00:54 -0500
      Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-13 16:07 +0000
        Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-13 14:05 -0500
          Re: picture gallery programs that read cameras? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-13 20:31 +0000

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