HOW TO DOWNLOAD PICTURES FROM A DIGITAL DEVICE FROM START TO FINISH

The first step is to create as many New Folders you think will be necessary.

Consider each folder its own separate Photo Album.

Next, connect the USB cable that came with the device.

Turn the device on.

Plug in the other end of the USB cable to the computer.

A dialogue box (popup window) may automatically appear after connecting the device.

A set of windows may popup looking like this.

Or just one window that looks like this.

Select

If the dialogue box (window) doesn’t popup immediately, give it a minute.

Waiting a minute gives the computer time to automatically find the right drivers so these

After drivers are installed a dialogue box should automatically popup.

If installation was unsuccessful or if the computer has been idle in search for drivers more than 5-minutes, it’s advisable to run the original installation disk that came with the device.

devices can communicate with each other.

Look for the Folder with the device icon and click on it.

The portable device shown above is of my Canon camera

If drivers install successfully but no dialogue box appearsClick on the Start menu, and then click on Computer.

After clicking on the device icon, a window similar to this one should appear where pictures can now be accessed.

To access pictures, click on Browse files

Next, click on Removable storage

Then, click on DCIM. Always look for DCIM folder in any device that takes pictures. This is where they’re stored.

My device named its picture folder: 136_10

Device folder names vary according to manufacturer.

Here are the pictures in folder 136_10

There are no more folders to click-through to.

Now that the pictures have been located. It would be a good time to open a second dialogue box (window) to

easily move pictures from one folder to another.

click on the Start menu then Documents

Clicking on the folder shortcut can open a new

dialogue box, too.To open a second dialogue box

In the dialogue box with the pictures, left-mouse click anywhere in the white area, keep the button down and

move the pointer across the top of the pictures to select.

Use shortcut keys Ctrl+A to select all pictures in the dialogue box, too (optional)

Once the desired pictures have been highlighted, release the mouse button, then left-mouse click on one of the pictures to drag all of the selected pictures over to the New Folder. Keep the button down while dragging.

Always try to note whether you’re Moving or Copying files over to the New Folder.

If it was a successful Move, the selected pictures will have been removed entirely from the device over to the

New Folder.

If it was a successful Copy, pictures will have been only copied from the device over to the New Folder. Originals would still need to be manually deleted from the device.

Take a look inside the New Folder to make sure the pictures are where they’re supposed to be.

Now congratulate yourself on a job well done!