iPhoto won't show camera, won't quit

[earthsaver]

When I connect my camera to my PowerBook, iPhoto becomes active but never shows the camera. When I connect a card reader with the card from the camera, it mounts in the Finder and iPhoto becomes active, but iPhoto never shows the card.

I've tried trashing iPhoto preferences, shutting down/restarting (hoping to refresh USB), even reinstalling iPhoto from scratch. I don't know how many times I've been able to import directly from my camera since the iPhoto 7.1.4 update was released, but I think it's been quite few. Most recently, I trashed the single cache file/folder for iPhoto to no avail, except now Image Capture crashes when I try to show its Device Browser, even after trashing its preferences.

I'm out of ideas.

- Ben

 

[sgould]

I had a similar problem with my Sony camera. But I didn't play around with the iPhoto Image Capture files. The card reader was the solution I found that worked.

My problem was solved by upgrading the camera firmware. Should have thought of that a lot earlier......

 

[earthsaver]

Well, there are no firmware updates available for my camera, but again the problem is with any device. Even the memory card in my card reader doesn't show up in iPhoto, though it mounts in the Finder.