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I’m using Windows 7, trying to transfer photos from my digital camera to my laptop for the second time, but the Import Pictures and Videos wizard won’t let me. After I connect my camera and choose ‘Import pictures and videos’ from the AutoPlay dialog box, I get a message from the Import Pictures and Videos wizard that ‘No new pictures or videos were found on this device’.
Although it would have been simple to just treat the camera as a mass storage device and browse the files in Explorer, I wanted to use the wizard to create a folder for each date. Why can’t we have a button to import the same images again and again, as many times as we want?
Disconnecting and reconnecting the device didn’t help, and deleting the files and containing folder from my computer didn’t do it, either. Obviously, something was keeping track of which images were being transfered. So I started digging around and found this interesting file in my user folder:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Photo Acquisition\PreviouslyAcquired.db
I renamed it to PreviouslyAcquired.db.old, then reconnected the camera and went through the wizard and lo, I was able to import the pictures a second time.
9 December 2009
I thought it would be handy to have some direct downloads to the Citrix XenApp web client software for Windows, particularly as the Citrix people can’t settle on a name for their product and the web site changes every 15 minutes.
Citrix Online Plug-in – Version 11.2
Release Date: 9/29/2009
Windows 7, XP, Vista, 2003, & 2008
11 MB
Download [...]
26 November 2009
A repository of quick fixes for various issues that arise in the Windows XP, Office 2007 environment.
25 November 2009
I’m dual booting Linux (Fedora 11 with Gnome) and Windows 7. If I set the time in Windows, then boot into Linux, the time remains correct. When I boot back into Windows, the time is off by a few hours. After some reading, it seems that Linux is using UTC time and [...]
24 November 2009
I’ve been looking for a quick, easy, and reversible way to circumvent or temporarily disable Cisco Security Agent 5.2.x running on our Windows 2000 workstations for some time. At our firm, the agent UI is either hidden or there is no agent UI on the workstations (so no direct user interaction is even possible), [...]
22 November 2009
How to resolve the issue where VMware expects to find a missing snapshot file and will not boot the virtual machine.
20 November 2009
Combine two or more associative arrays and sum the values of any keys that exist in common.
12 October 2009
Prevent Dreamweaver from rewriting your lowercase attributes as camelCase.
30 September 2009
I’m excited to announce a new site of mine – Aleph Studios – which will be the new home for my web development freelance work.
21 September 2009
A Madsen bicycle is sort of like a pedal-powered El Camino: odd, but undeniably useful-looking.
12 September 2009