Set up PCMCIA Sandisk compact flash card adapter import on Ubuntu 10.10

I followed these instructions.

>sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           9       72261   83  Linux
/dev/sda2   *          10        5487    44002035    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            5488       14594    73145994    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            5488        5749     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            5750        8360    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            8361        9588     9857293+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            9588       14383    38514688   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           14383       14594     1694720   82  Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 1024 MB, 1024966656 bytes
32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         993     1000912+   6  FAT16

Be sure to note what you see after "/dev", you might have "hde1" instead of "sdb1"

> sudo mkdir /media/cfcard
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/cfcard
- right click on desktop -> create launcher
- Name: SD mount
- Command: gksu mount /dev/sdb1 /media/cfcard
- Open up Shotwell Photo Manager and you can import the photos.  Or you can go to Computer to see the files.

Setup USB camera import on Ubuntu 10.10

I have a little Kodak Easyshare camera, which I use USB to import photos to my laptop.  It's the first time I tried to import photos since I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.10.

I had a series of problems:


1. Problem: Nothing happened when I plugged in my camera.  In 8.04, F-stop would automatically pop out.

> lsusb
shows that the camera is recognized.

Fix: After some research, I learned that F-stop has been replaced by Shotwell Photo Manager.  Which I installed with:

> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install shotwell

To open Shotwell: Applications -> Graphics -> Shotwell Photo Manager.


2. Now I plug in my camera and something pops up (twice).  But it's an error message:

Unable to mount Kodak EasyShare ... Digital Camera
Error initializing camera: -60: Could not lock the device

Fix: Apparently there is some issue with the camera not wanting to release pictures freely.  So I got gPhoto to resolve this.

> sudo apt-get install gphoto2

3. Now when I try plugging in the camera: (Somehow I still get a duplicate, whatever)

- Ignore any error messages. 
- Click on the window that opens Shotwell Photo Manager
- Click the option that unmounts the camera, wait for a while.
- Should now see a preview of all the images on your camera.
Wait until it finishes
- Click on "Import All"